New material to wrap HPA cylinders..

[mxracer33x]

BioSteel

In response to the original posting in this thread, I read this link today. Whats next? And who thought this up?

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_...E13762,00.html

[Coaster]

thanks for that link, that is exactly what i heard about.

[Jesh679]

When you guys talk about Quantum Computers what you are really talking about is spintronics which uses electron spin to denote on and off. Pretty much how it works is it starts out with a long line of electrons and spins them all the same way then as they pass through a "processor" it switches them to the appropriate spin to signal a 0 or 1 which is then read later down the line by whatever device it is sent to. it isnt designed to speed things up only make them smaller.

[sniper1rfa]

yeah, thats the RAM bit i was talking about, but the other stuff is NOT "spintronics".

[ShooterJM]

MRAM is different then what is generally refered to quantam computers. You're looking at a device that has quite low power consumption and read/write access that rivels the fastest SRAM modules. You're looking at a 14 nanosecond access time, on a non volatile. Probably will revolutionize a few industries in the next few years. There are a few SBIRS contracts from the goverment already granted. Will be interersting to see how it all pans out.

As to quantam computers. There are differing opinions. Quite a few people tend to promote their having an amazing speed advantage (theoretically) over a classical binary computer. However, this is still theory. If anyone remembers the 1999 Nobel Prize winner, Hooft, the standard model of particle physics says that the laws of nature at the deepest levels return to the discrete in the classical bit. Some guy named Einstein agreed with him. Basically this asserts that quantam computing is actually much slower then a clasical computer bit. I'm not going to pretend to understand the electron on a pool of liquid helium model,or the fact that information on a quantam computer couldn't be copied, only teleported per se, but it is interesting. Very interesting.

Hehe in conclusion, wasn't it Bohr who said something to the tune of, "If your not astounded by quantam theory, you'll never understand it."