# Zuse's thesis

tags
Physics, Philosophy
resources
Juergen Schmidhuber’s page, (Schmidhuber 1999)

Zuse’s thesis is the idea that the Universe could be running within a digital computer. It was formulated by Konrad Zuse in Rechnender Raum (Calculating Space) in 1969. The computer could be a very large Cellular automaton according to Zuse.

## A computer program to simulate our Universe (and all the others)

Systematically create and execute all programs for a universal computer, such as a Turing machine or a CA; the first program is run for one instruction every second step on average, the next for one instruction every second of the remaining steps on average, and so on.

/Juergen Schmidhuber in (Schmidhuber 1999)

The need for interlacing computations like this is to avoid the halting problem if we were to wait for any of these programs to finish.

## Bibliography

1. . . "A Computer Scientist's View of Life, the Universe, and Everything". Arxiv:quant-ph/9904050. http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9904050. See notes