New material to wrap HPA cylinders..
About a month ago i read an article dealing with how people have been trying to figure out how to mass-produce spider silk and have failed many time. This article also talks about how strong it is( 5x that of steel and how light it is). Unfortionately i cannot find a link to the complete article, but i have a link that is a little preview of it: herepreview
Ok, i think that this would be an incredible thing to wrap HPA cyclinders with. 5 times as strong as steel and much, much lighter. Maybe this could be the way of the future for wrapping these cylinders. What do you guys think?
ok, heres my understanding of quantum computing...
current computers rely on binary, the ones and zeros we are all familiar with. these stand for two different states, on and off. this means everything has to be reproduced as a combination of 1's and 0's. quantum computing relies on electron states. all matter (protons, neutrons and electrons that is...) is made of a combination of 3 of 6 quarks. the six quarks are actually six "flavors" of the same particle (kinda). the states are up, down, top, bottom, charm, and strange. the theory is that we can use combinations of these six flavors to encode stuff, instead of combos of 1's and 0's. this would make computers 6 times faster and programs 6 times smaller, making run times 36 times shorter.
there is a new development that is somewhat related to this. its called SpinRAM. its based on the spin imparted by quarks on electrons. spin one way, you get on, the other way you get off. now remeber, electrons are really little and so there are lots of them around to use. they have made RAM chips the size of a credit card (you dont have enough money in your credit card limit to buy it, so dont ask...) that can hold something like 7 terabytes of information, and this is random acces memory, not a hard drive. :eek:
thats what i have gathered, of course, i doubt anyone on AO really truly understands how it works. :rolleyes: