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Anonymous Wed 18 Dec 10:53:12 2019 No.11235373 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11236248 >>11236726 >>11236979 >>11237035

When are we going to have hardware that works on light signals instead of electricity?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Dec 2019 12:15:50 No.11235479 Report

Quoted By: >>11235639

Never, because transistors don't make any sense above base 2

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Dec 2019 12:18:50 No.11235484 Report

Quoted By: >>11235499 >>11237172

blue light wavelength = 400nm
semiconductor component size = dozens of nm
so never

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Dec 2019 12:31:47 No.11235499 Report

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>>11235484
>400mn
wavelengths get smaller in a medium, could you make a chip with 166nm light if i gave you enough diamonds?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Dec 2019 13:21:41 No.11235563 Report

Quoted By: >>11235634 >>11236257 >>11237146

What alternatives could we use to hardware and maybe household objects instead of electricity? cold fusion?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Dec 2019 14:28:04 No.11235634 Report

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>>11235563
protein mediated oxidation of glucose

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Dec 2019 14:31:19 No.11235639 Report

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>>11235479
this guy has never heard of a transratiometer

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Dec 2019 21:08:26 No.11236248 Report

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>>11235373
I want my 0.01 ms ping latency motherfucker.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Dec 2019 21:12:16 No.11236257 Report

Quoted By: >>11236810

>>11235563
Biological computing, a small brain we feed with fruit juice with a tiny speech organs singing your favourite tunes in your ears...

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Dec 2019 00:50:02 No.11236726 Report

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>>11235373
I mean your internet is probably piped to your house through fiber optics.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Dec 2019 01:37:08 No.11236810 Report

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>>11236257
Will it poop in your ears also?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Dec 2019 02:47:29 No.11236979 Report

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>>11235373
that sounds really really really hard

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Dec 2019 03:02:27 No.11237035 Report

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>>11235373
Just build yerself a 6502 clone outta lasers and prove your point

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Anonymous Thu 19 Dec 2019 03:44:50 No.11237146 Report

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>>11235563
gluontronics

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Anonymous Thu 19 Dec 2019 03:53:32 No.11237172 Report

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>>11235484
Can't you use sever wavelengths simultaneously in the same space though?
Also, can't light achieve faster cycle times than electrons?

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