If we were to consider the universe is a quantum computer...

Every particle, their spin, their charge could carry information... and could perhaps be programmed.

The spoken word is but a wave which vibrates the air... could such waves also vibrate and change fundamental particles?

Ummm... words programming the universe... structured chants; spells shape reality... a basis for magical thinking?

Now I know there's a gulf between the science and the idea, but hey, this was just a random thought which popped into my head to be scribbled in a note book at 3.00am on the 22nd July 2007 and found again today when tidying my office!

Alan