What is the computational power of the universe?
" Jordan does not imagine what we could learn if humanity somehow converted the entire cosmos into a vast computing device, he asks, now that the universe has undergone billions of years of change in accordance with the laws of nature, can we use what we see through our telescopes to gain insights into difficult computational problems? "
https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.103512
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/nios-wit111517.php
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