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The Bit and the Pendulum
From puting to M Theory—The New Physics of Information
Tom Siegfried
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Siegfried, Tom.
The bit and the pendulum : from puting to m theory—
the new physics of information / Tom Siegfried.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-471-32174-5 (alk. paper)
1. Computer science. 2. Physics. 3. Information technology.
I. Title.
1999
004—dc21 99-22275
Printed in the United States of America
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Contents
Preface vii
Introduction 1
1 13
Beam Up the Goulash
2 37
Machines and Metaphors
3 57
Information Is Physical
4 77
The Quantum and puter
5 95
putational Cell
6 115
put