James Gleick's "The Information."
And I quote;;;
This is a way of fathoming the paradox of the observer: that the outcome of an experiment is affected, or even determined, when it is observed.
A key to the enigma is a type of relationship that had no place in classical physics: the phenomenon known as entanglement.
When particles or quantum systems are entangled, their properties remain correlated across vast distances and vast times.
Light-years apart, they share something that is physical, yet not only physical.
Spooky paradoxes arise, unresolvable until one understands how entanglement encodes information,
measured in bits or their drolly named quantum counterpart, qubits.
When photons and electrons and other particles interact, what are they really doing? Exchanging bits, transmitting quantum states, processing information. The laws of physics are the algorithms.
Every burning star, every silent nebula, every particle leaving its ghostly trace in a cloud chamber is an information processor. The universe computes its own destiny.
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