....Meanwhile, Markopoulou's vision of the universe as a giant quantum computer might be more than a useful analogy: it might be true, according to some theorists. If so, there is one startling consequence: space itself might not exist.....

.....By replacing loop quantum gravity's chunks of space with qubits, what used to be a frame of reference - space itself - becomes just a web of information.....

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Universe my visualisation

universe-- NASA picture

That picture above is a timeline for the Universe from the bigbang to where we are now. I dont get it, why would the universe have to be a giant quantum computer? Just because everything can be explaind by mathematics? Well of course you can, how would it els be???