Tiny crystal may hold key to future of computers. News Corp Australian Papers The NIST simulator consists of a tiny, single-plane crystal of hundreds of beryllium ions, less than 1 millimeter in diameter, hovering inside a device called a Penning trap. Here, the ions are glowing, indicating that they are all in the same quantum state. Under the right experimental conditions, the ion crystal spontaneously forms this nearly perfect triangular lattice structure.J.W. Britton/NIST SYDNEY – A tiny crystal could hold the secret to computers of the future, unimaginably more powerful than today's most advanced supercomputers. Preliminary tests indicate that the new processor can eclipse the capacity of current computers by an extraordinary 80 orders of magnitude -- a one with 80 zeros after it -- potentially taking computing into a new dimension. 'No classical computer could do what this simulator has the potential to do The system, a tiny crystal of beryllium ions, uses quantum mechanics rather than conventional computing technology.
Video. Is the Universe a Holographic Reality? The Universe as a Hologram by Michael Talbot Does Objective Reality Exist, or is the Universe a Phantasm? In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one of the most important experiments of the 20th century. You did not hear about it on the evening news. In fact, unless you are in the habit of reading scientific journals you probably have never even heard Aspect's name, though there are some who believe his discovery may change the face of science.
Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. It doesn't matter whether they are 10 feet or 10 billion miles apart. To understand why Bohm makes this startling assertion, one must first understand a little about holograms. What else the superhologram contains is an open-ended question. Hirosi Ooguri (Caltech), What String Theory Has Taught Us about Quantum Gravity and Unification of Forces. Newsflash: Time May Not Exist | Einstein | DISCOVER Magazine. Is the Universe a Holographic Reality? The Universe as a Hologram by Michael Talbot Does Objective Reality Exist, or is the Universe a Phantasm?
In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one of the most important experiments of the 20th century. You did not hear about it on the evening news. Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. University of London physicist David Bohm, for example, believes Aspect's findings imply that objective reality does not exist, that despite its apparent solidity the universe is at heart a phantasm, a gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram.
To understand why Bohm makes this startling assertion, one must first understand a little about holograms. This insight suggested to Bohm another way of understanding Aspect's discovery.