Frank Wilczek Quote

When we view nature stripped to essentials, so to speak, in this Unification Table, what we see is... a five bit register.... It is in just this form that data is stored and manipulated within a digital computer.... Every particle, then, can be specified by a five-bit word and stored in a five-bit register. It's eerie that even the odd restriction on how many minus signs are allowed is reminiscent of a trick used in computers, to detect errors in transmission. You see, if allowed words must have an odd number of minus signs, any single error in transmission of a word can be detected.... our world might be an intricate program working itself out on a gigantic computing machine.


Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics (1987)


When we view nature stripped to essentials, so to speak, in this Unification Table, what we see is... a five bit register.... It is in just this form ...

When we view nature stripped to essentials, so to speak, in this Unification Table, what we see is... a five bit register.... It is in just this form ...

When we view nature stripped to essentials, so to speak, in this Unification Table, what we see is... a five bit register.... It is in just this form ...

When we view nature stripped to essentials, so to speak, in this Unification Table, what we see is... a five bit register.... It is in just this form ...