Aspects of Computability in Physics

Authors: Joseph Shipman

Abstract: This paper reviews connections between physics and computation, and explores their implications. The main topics are computational "hardness" of physical systems, computational status of fundamental theories, quantum computation, and the Universe as a computer.

Submitted to arXiv on 25 Nov. 1997

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