/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3184823

What do you mean with "better computers"? More memory capacity/MIPS or better software? There is a big difference.

While I agree that Silicon has a bound in which electrons become subject to so much quantum tunneling that it becomes useless to pursue them any further, other mechanism for computation are available, though I don't agree with Kurzweil's idea that it will arrive "just in time" as one runs out.

>>3017685

>This does not in any case state that time slows down for you.

Of course it doesn't. They feel time going just the same. It's from the point of view of an outside observer that they are slowed down.

Still it allows for relativistic flight to the stars within the lifetime of the passengers.

>>2846512

The computation is performed by moving rods.

Pic related is a diamondoid rod that is pretty much on the edge of the lowest possible size (I don't buy anything smaller). The main rod slides into a diamond bearing and the knobs act as locks: A driver keeps the rod moving back and forth, and when an input rod slides in, its knob blocks the main rod's knob, which might do the same to another rod, or basically just allow an action to happen. Alternatively, you could keep the main rod still, and have the input rods push it with sheer mechanical force, but I'm a little skeptical: It would dissipate into thermal noise in large gates.