Is The Universe a Big Computer?

We have been searching for the theory of the universe, otherwise known as the Grand Unified Theory, for a long time. Physicists hoping for the big breakthrough have persuaded governments to spend billions on particle accelerators to help provide data for analysis. However, it could be that the answer lies in your PC. Could it be that the universe is just a computer?

Stephen Wolfram, the man who gave us the maths program Mathematica, certainly thinks that computing is the key to everything. In 2002 he published a huge book, A New Kind of Science (Wolfram Media Incorporated, ISBN 1579550088), that outlined his ideas. Unlike most books that attempt to make a contribution to science, it wasn't peer-reviewed before publication. The first the scientific community knew of his ideas was when the book was published.

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