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The Computing Spacetime

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How the World Computes (CiE 2012)

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The idea that the Universe is a program in a giant quantum computer is both fascinating and suffers from various problems. Nonetheless, it can provide a unified picture of physics and this is very useful for the problem of Quantum Gravity where such a unification is necessary. We give an introduction to the idea of the universe as a quantum computation, the problem of Quantum Gravity, and Quantum Graphity, a simple way to model a dynamical spacetime as a quantum computation.

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  1. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 31 Caroline St. N., Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 2Y5, Canada

    Fotini Markopoulou

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  1. School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, Leeds, UK

    S. Barry Cooper

  2. Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Willialm Gates Building, J.J. Thomson Avenue, CB3 0FD, Cambridge, UK

    Anuj Dawar

  3. Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GE, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Benedikt Löwe

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Markopoulou, F. (2012). The Computing Spacetime. In: Cooper, S.B., Dawar, A., Löwe, B. (eds) How the World Computes. CiE 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7318. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30870-3_48

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