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Calculating Space

By Konrad Zuse

Book information

Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Year
1969
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3099727 bytes)
Pages
94\98
Orientation
no
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-06-07 18:22:44
digital physics

Description

Calculating Space is the title of MIT's English translation of Konrad Zuse's 1969 book Rechnender Raum (literally: "space that is computing"), the first book on digital physics.[1]Zuse proposed that the universe is being computed by some sort of cellular automaton or other discrete computing machinery,[1] challenging the long-held view that some physical laws are continuous by nature. He focused on cellular automata as a possible substrate of the computation, and pointed out (among other things) that the classical notions of entropy and its growth do not make sense in deterministically computed universes.

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