If information... then universe

Abstract

The article compares the universe and reality to a computer, arguing that all processes can be explained in terms of information processing. The article discusses the role of information in quantum theory, noting topics such as the uncertainty principle and entanglement, and provides information from the physicists Vlatko Vedral and Ed Fredkin on the universe as a quantum or digital computer, in which processes can be reduced to particle interactions with binary answers. The article also looks at the possibility that reality could be a projection of information encoded on the boundary of the universe.