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...Lloyd tackles these extremely confusing issues admirably, writing clearly and often humorously...
...Lloyd thinks that most physicists are missing the point: the story of the universe isn’t about particles and forces, but rather about information...
...According to Lloyd, these sorts of interactions are identical to the calculations that go on in a computer...
...Lloyd has been building quantum computers for years. So far, one of their most “impressive” achievements is factoring the number 15. Clearly, quantum computing has a long...
...couldn’t help comparing his book to other paragons of popular physics–Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time” and Brian Greene’s “The Elegant Universe”—and Lloyd comes up short. His book is full of misleading statements—for instance, he writes that “...particles of sound are called phonons,” even though sound is almost never thought of as a particle—which, while correct on some level, are more...