A Single Ball on a Billiard Table Can Theoretically Perform Any Computation
Science Alert · 21 Sep 2026

A Single Ball on a Billiard Table Can Theoretically Perform Any Computation

It's hard to imagine a system of physics simpler than a billiard table. Send a ball across the table, and its path follows a simple rule: It travels in a straight line until it hits a wall, then bounces away at the same angle it came in. Yet even a system this simple can, at least in theory, reprodu


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