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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Mathematical_universe_hypothesis/b7JIz2kF">Mathematical universe hypothesis</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/It_from_bit/I1A5t0Fd">It from bit</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Simulation_hypothesis/flKxTcxr">Simulation hypothesis</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Weyl%2527s_tile_argument/yvfC8Iq8">Weyl's tile argument</a></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Natura_non_facit_saltus/BEewpJwY">Natura non facit saltus</a></i></li></ul> <h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2> <ul><li>Robert Wright, <a href="https://robertwright.com/universe-just-happen/">"Did the Universe Just Happen?"</a>, <i>Atlantic Monthly</i>, April 1988 - Article discussing Fredkin and his digital physics ideas</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Schmidhuber, Jürgen (1997), Freksa, Christian; Jantzen, Matthias; Valk, Rüdiger (eds.), "A computer scientist's view of life, the universe, and everything", Foundations of Computer Science: Potential — Theory — Cognition, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1337, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 201–208, arXiv:quant-ph/9904050, doi:10.1007/bfb0052088, ISBN 978-3-540-69640-7, S2CID 17830241, retrieved 2022-05-23 <a href="978-3-540-69640-7" target="_blank">978-3-540-69640-7</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Das Jahr des rechnenden Raums". blog.hnf.de (in German). Retrieved 2022-05-23. <a href="https://blog.hnf.de/das-jahr-des-rechnenden-raums/" target="_blank">https://blog.hnf.de/das-jahr-des-rechnenden-raums/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Zuse, Konrad (1969). Rechnender Raum. Braunschweig: Springer Vieweg. ISBN 978-3-663-02723-2. <a href="978-3-663-02723-2" target="_blank">978-3-663-02723-2</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>6.895 Digital Physics Lecture Outline, MIT Course Catalog Listing, 1978 (PDF) <a href="http://simson.net/ref/1978/6.895%20Digital%20Physics/1978-01-17%20Digital%20Physics%20Lecture%20Outline.pdf" target="_blank">http://simson.net/ref/1978/6.895%20Digital%20Physics/1978-01-17%20Digital%20Physics%20Lecture%20Outline.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Digital Philosophy | A New Way of Thinking About Physics". digitalphilosophy.org. Archived from the original on 2021-01-26. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210126115736/http://www.digitalphilosophy.org/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20210126115736/http://www.digitalphilosophy.org/</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"Tomorrow's computer, yesterday". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2025-04-07. <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/04/27/1021714/tomorrows-computer-yesterday/" target="_blank">https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/04/27/1021714/tomorrows-computer-yesterday/</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Schmidhuber, Jürgen (1997), Freksa, Christian; Jantzen, Matthias; Valk, Rüdiger (eds.), "A computer scientist's view of life, the universe, and everything", Foundations of Computer Science: Potential — Theory — Cognition, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1337, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 201–208, arXiv:quant-ph/9904050, doi:10.1007/bfb0052088, ISBN 978-3-540-69640-7, S2CID 17830241, retrieved 2022-05-23 <a href="978-3-540-69640-7" target="_blank">978-3-540-69640-7</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Zuse, Konrad, 1967, Elektronische Datenverarbeitung vol 8., pages 336–344 <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Fritz, Tobias (June 2013). "Velocity polytopes of periodic graphs and a no-go theorem for digital physics". Discrete Mathematics. 313 (12): 1289–1301. arXiv:1109.1963. doi:10.1016/j.disc.2013.02.010. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.disc.2013.02.010" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.disc.2013.02.010</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Aaronson, Scott (2014). "Quantum randomness: if there's no predeterminism in quantum mechanics, can it output numbers that truly have no pattern?". American Scientist. 102 (4): 266–271. doi:10.1511/2014.109.266. <a href="https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A373474677/AONE?u=mlin_oweb&sid=googleScholar&xid=62475a52" target="_blank">https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A373474677/AONE?u=mlin_oweb&sid=googleScholar&xid=62475a52</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Jaeger, Gregg (2018). "Clockwork Rebooted: Is the Universe a Computer?". Quantum Foundations, Probability and Information. STEAM-H: Science, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Mathematics & Health. pp. 71–91. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-74971-6_8. ISBN 978-3-319-74970-9. <a href="978-3-319-74970-9" target="_blank">978-3-319-74970-9</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>