Journal johndiii's Journal: "...Could Lead to a Computer Revolution!" 3
Said the breathless PR flack. The source article is fairly interesting, but you would never guess it from the title. Rather than another overblown PR piece, it actually describes the observation of a phenomenon first predicted in 1981: under certain circumstances, an electron may split into two quasiparticles, the spinon and the holon, the former manifesting the electron's spin, and the latter its charge.
This may, someday, lead to advances in computing hardware. But trying to inflate the importance of the result by saying that it may lead to a computer revolution is just silly. This was not even the first observation of spin-charge separation: see Lawrence Berkeley Labs, 2006.
Yeah, maybe I'm feeling a bit the curmudgeon today.
Well, ... (Score:1)
...aren't we getting kinda stuck as far as how much more we can shrink down the logic paths in our CPU's? Couldn't it start another revolution (or reignite the continuing of an old one) in computing if we found a way to keep shrinking these pathways for another while?
maybe you are being a bit of a curmudgeon (Score:1)
Hope all is well.
They're just trying to spin the news ... (Score:2)
They're just trying to spin the news.
If we could split off the spin from the actual story, THAT would be news for nerds ... but not for many of the public, who actively WANT their news spun, so they don't have to think.
Imagine a world where nobody could spin the news - like "Liar Liar" writ large.
We all know that the truth isn't always the whole story:
Q: "Does this dress make me look fat?"
A: "It's not the dress!"