Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 237901 (2002) [4 pages]Computational Capacity of the Universe
See accompanying Physics Focus All physical systems register and process information. The laws of physics determine the amount of information that a physical system can register (number of bits) and the number of elementary logic operations that a system can perform (number of ops). The Universe is a physical system. The amount of information that the Universe can register and the number of elementary operations that it can have performed over its history are calculated. The Universe can have performed 10120 ops on 1090 bits ( 10120 bits including gravitational degrees of freedom). © 2002 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.237901
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.237901
PACS:
03.67.Lx, 89.70.+c, 98.80.Hw
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