My Electric PC Dream

Perhaps it is flowing through the air between your ears, airhead.

What will you use as insulation, cerebro-fuckwad? What will you use as insulation inside the CPU, cerebro-fuckwad? Bremsstrahlung, cerebro-fuckwad.

None necessary.

None necessary.

Not at the small energy levels I'm talking about.

One electron per second makes for some pretty goddamned slow computing.

Clueless idiot.

Clueless idiot.

Energy and power are two different things.

Clueless idiot.

Not necessarily. There are low-power PCs that are pretty fast.

I already said the power is only 1 watt, not nearly enough for Bremsstrahlung.

SHUT THE F*CK UP, CHILD.

Your ideas are idiotic and you are too stupid to understand the criticisms.

CLUELESS IDIOT.

If that is the case, then he should place it in his sig so everyone knows not to smack him around.

I imagine Radium being like the bad guy in the film "Dirty Harry", you know, kind of weaselly looking, with a demeanour that just makes you want to smack him senseless with a bludgeon.

Clueless idiot.

Energy and power are two different things.

Clueless idiot.

Even a 4 bit light computer has the potential to be far faster than anything we currently use.

There are physical devices required that make this goal very elusive, however. You iterate one such obstacle.

In alt.engineering.electrical The Great Attractor wrote: | On 13 May 2007 14:24:43 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@ipal.net wrote: | |>I suggest you would spend your time better by building a computer that |>runs entirely on photons from light. Be sure it can handle a wide range |>of photon energy levels (wavelengths). If you can fabricate picogates |>that can operate entirely by holding a single photon in state and switch |>the next photon based on a held photon, then you may well have achieved |>the elusive 100% energy efficiency. Holding a photon would be the big |>trick (they prefer to move very fast, so you will have to fool it and |>run it around in a circle or bounce it back and forth). | | | Even a 4 bit light computer has the potential to be far faster than | anything we currently use.

There is also such a thing as a 1-bit computer, where the computational functions can be performed on various data sizes streamed in serially. Two 1-bit-wide data streams can be added as they arrive if they come in little-endian order. Many other functions of a CPU can still be made to work on serialized 1-bit-wide data, as well. Then the parts count and die space can be applied to making a faster serial rate instead of just raw parallel bits. We see a lot of technology moving this way already, such as RAMBUS, SATA, and PCI-Express.

I envision a future computer using things like the different refractive index at different wavelengths to serialize and deserialize data within a CPU.

| There are physical devices required that make this goal very elusive, | however. You iterate one such obstacle.

Indeed.

Once we get to the point where we can assemble material by precise placement of single atoms in 3 dimensions, I think we'll find ways to construct what it takes to accomplish single photon level gates and other circuits.

My dream PC is at least 32-bit.

Then, as stated earlier... you really don't get it.

In alt.engineering.electrical Radium wrote: | On May 13, 2:58 pm, The Great Attractor | wrote: | |> Even a 4 bit light computer has the potential to be far faster than |> anything we currently use. | | My dream PC is at least 32-bit.

I guess a 256-bit CPU architecture would comply with that dream.

A bolt of lightning has only 2,000,000 (or 2 *10^6) volts and its current can be up to 100,000 A (1*10^5) so, a lot more than one electron and is through air.How then, could you coerce your device to give one electron (per second?)if you have such a high voltage that would penetrate through any convenient thickness of air and, maybe, any known insulator?And you don't tell us, your charge is one electron, but the flux?For instance, the bolt of lightning has a power to the range of GW (see Back to the future)but that is only for a couple of ms, and the energy therein is a couple of kWh, just enought to let an 60 W bulb on for a few days....

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