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Quantum-Tunneling Electrons Could Make Semiconductors Obsolete
Nerval's Lobster writes "The powerful, reliable combination of transistors and semiconductors in computer processors could give way to systems built on the way electrons misbehave, all of it contained in circuits that warp even the most basic rules of physics. Rather than relying on a predictable flow of electrons that appear to know whether they are particles or waves, the new approach depends on quantum tunneling, in which electrons given the right incentive can travel faster than light, appear to arrive at a new location before having left the old one, and pass straight through barriers that should be able to hold them back. Quantum tunneling is one of a series of quantum-mechanics-related techniques being developed as possible replacements for transistors embedded in semiconducting materials such as silicon. Unlike traditional transistors, circuits built by creating pathways for electrons to travel across a bed of nanotubes are not limited by any size restriction relevant to current manufacturing methods, require far less power than even the tiniest transistors, and do not give off heat or leak electricity as waste products, according to Yoke Khin Yap of Michigan Technological University, lead author of a paper describing the technique, which was published in the journal Advanced Materials last week."
I didn't know Paula Deen read slashdot....
So naming an aging fat chick with a distinctly psychotic look in her eyes means what? That you can name the black scientists who participated in this discovery? No? Didn't think so.
Put up is one option. Shut up is the other option. The third option you have chosen, mentioning irrelevant bullshit, means you can't even do one of those. This is why the reality you call "racism" still exists. You cannot disprove or falsify the notion that blacks contribute the least and burden the most. The violent crime and poverty stats alone tell the real story. You see, those are facts, not feel-good egalitarian bullshit. You want to be a scientist? Great! Look at facts. How many cutting-edge technological inventions involve blacks? Nearly none. FACT. Falsify it or eat it. Or go silent now you fucking coward. Your beliefs are feel-good and hollow and empty, that is why they do not survive even the most basic challenge. All you can do is frown upon, finger-point and name-call. Terrible substitute for facts, that is.