Seth Lloyd, an MIT mechanical engineer, doesn’t think digital physics requires an “unseen programmer.” He posits that the universe could be a computer in and of itself, rather than existing in a computer on a desk somewhere, and that phenomena can be decided using relativity. He and theoretical physicist Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara elaborate on the implications and curiosities of such a bit-flipping universe.

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Image courtesy of Bruce Irving; Recorded June 2011; Posted September 2011