{"id":1233,"date":"2006-05-08T12:53:34","date_gmt":"2006-05-08T19:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2006-05-08T12:53:34","modified_gmt":"2006-05-08T19:53:34","slug":"the-universes-machine-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/05\/08\/the-universes-machine-language\/","title":{"rendered":"The Universe&#039;s Machine Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those local to Seattle, Seth Lloyd is in town tonight giving a Seattle Science Lecture:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMonday, May 8 at 7:30 pm.<br \/>\nSeth Lloyd: \u2018Programming the Universe\u2019<br \/>\nSeth Lloyd is a professor at MIT who works in the vanguard of research in quantum computing \u2013 using the quantum mechanical properties of atoms as a computer. He believes once humans have a complete understand the laws of physics, quantum computing will allow a complete understanding of the universe as well. His new book Programming the Universe explains how the creation of the universe involves information processing. His hypotheses bear implications for the evolution vs. intelligent design debate since he argues divine intervention isn\u2019t necessary to produce complexity and life. Downstairs at Town Hall, enter on Seneca Street.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those local to Seattle, Seth Lloyd is in town tonight giving a Seattle Science Lecture: Monday, May 8 at 7:30 pm. Seth Lloyd: \u2018Programming the Universe\u2019 Seth Lloyd is a professor at MIT who works in the vanguard of research in quantum computing \u2013 using the quantum mechanical properties of atoms as a computer. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/05\/08\/the-universes-machine-language\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Universe&#039;s Machine Language&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,63,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-quantum","category-seattle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}