转：Seth Lloyd's concept of black holes as "ultimate computers" was presented in a series of works exploring the theoretical computational limits imposed by physical laws. Notably, his influential ideas appeared in publications such as "The Ultimate Physical Limits of Computation" in Nature (2000) and earlier in a technical preprint titled "Computational Capacity of the Universe" (1999). In these works, Lloyd extended his exploration of how black holes could leverage their extreme density and entropy to perform computations efficiently, based on quantum mechanics and thermodynamic principles.
Lloyd theorized that the computational power of a black hole is proportional to its mass, with the energy and entropy available in the system setting hard limits on its processing and memory capacities. These theoretical discussions set a foundation for understanding how fundamental physics constrains computation, pushing the boundaries of classical and quantum computing
