Theory Quotes by Seth Lloyd

9 Theory quotes by Seth Lloyd

Seth Lloyd’s brief take on theory blends cutting‑edge quantum ideas with accessible insight, presenting a compact view of his forward‑looking mind.

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Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in…

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Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time.

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The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.

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When you zap things with light to build quantum computers, you're hacking existing systems. You're hijacking the computation that's already happening in…

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[With quantum computers] you can calculate how many bits are in the universe, how much energy it takes to flip them, how…

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“As mentioned before, quantum mechanics guarantees that any physical system with finite energy confined to a finite volume of space has a…

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Quantum mechanics is just completely strange and counterintuitive. We can't believe that things can be here [in one place] and there [in…

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We couldn't build quantum computers unless the universe were quantum and computing. We can build such machines because the universe is storing…

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Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. All three are processes in which useful or…

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Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if…

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“The significance of a bit depends not just on its value but on how that value affects other bits over time, as part of…

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In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of…

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Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time.

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What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is…

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Meaning is like pornography, you know it when you see it.

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If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available.

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There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.

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When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.

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It's also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that…

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Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can't. We are still not clear on that.

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Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly…

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Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to Shakespeare; programmed…

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Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the…

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