Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Excellent, our first catch of the day
Although we may not be dealing with rebel commandoes and ion cannons, the idea of tackling string theory in a blog can be quite mind boggling. since this is such a large subject, lets start with a small part of it, quantum computing. Simply put, quantum computing is where one uses an atom to store information. Unlike other memory storage options, however, since atoms exist in the quantum state, they can be both a 1 and 0 at the same time, instead of just a 1 or a 0, giving it a much larger processing power than conventional computing. To put it into scope, 50 atoms would hold more processing power than we could hold on the entire surface area of the earth today using conventional means. I leave this open for discussion now.
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How would you store the information on an atom?
ReplyDeleteThe most common way would be to store it in the direction it spins, for example, spinning along the Y-Axis could represent 0, while spinning on the X-Axis could represent 1.
ReplyDeleteHow would you control how they spin?
ReplyDeleteThere are many possibilities, two of them being a controlled electron or photon beam, or electromagnetic manipilation.
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ReplyDeleteYou can't say that.
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ReplyDeleteHmm, ok, you invent the technology for it Nelson, and then we'll see.
ReplyDeleteIts already been done, although not to the extent of 50 atoms. Check out the book A Shortcut Through Time.
ReplyDeleteIs that like the book "A Wrinkle in Time"?
ReplyDeletenot at all
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