>>12040715That's basically what a current valve is. Potential is like water pressure. Imagine a water valve that has a return spring so when you let go of it, it returns to the off position. If you use water pressure to push a piston against the valve you can turn it, and when you release pressure it goes back to off. That's basically a water version of a field effect transistor. There are many other kinds of transistor, but field effect ones are what's used in CPUs. It turns out that this simple device is all you need to process any kind of logic. You just need an absurd number of them to do nontrivial work. A million water valves opening and closing other water valves could make a slow and unreliable computer.
Read the links. It's all there.
>>12040736If you read the links in order and studied on them, then nothing I said would be alien to you. A gate as described in the first bit is pretty much a literal gate. A transistor gate is the electric equivalent to a dam sluice gate, or the gate in any kind of valve. If you read the article on MOSFET then you'd know what that is. I even spelled it out beforehand, "metal oxide field effect transistor". Then I introduce the NAND gate, which is a logic gate. It controls the flow of logic. It's a logic gate. This is not hard. The Wikipedia article shows that a NAND gate can be made with two MOSFETs. You are supposed to read the article. I didn't link them for nothing. Bootstrapping is a concept introduced by nandgame, which you were supposed to play all the way through. It would give you a shocking level insight into the workings of a computer. If you played it, then "bootstrapping" would mean device initialization to you.
Learning this shit will take you a long time even if you're dedicated. I cannot force knowledge into your head, only introduce you to fundamental concepts in a way which helps you build the knowledge yourself.
