Science Cellular automata Life might look like a mathematical game, but it lives up to its ambitious name. Cellular automata could reveal a lot about how the universe works and maybe even about how life began.
Life is one form of cellular automata that creates spectacular patterns.
The simplest form of cellular automata are one-dimensional. Universal machines Universal machines are systems capable of any computation. Cellular automata are computer simulations that try to emulate the way the laws of nature are supposed to work in nature. Possibly, they could tell us whether the reductionistic approach research always has adopted is realistic. Cellular automata can never give definitive answers to these questions, since they don't claim to emulate nature in more than a rough way.