You maybe interested to know (I found out in 1998, so it could be an old slashdot topic) that this is by no means the fastest processor tech. I have heard of. While I applaud IBM in their constant innovation, this is nothing compared with the TCAP chip, developed by ACC. TCAP stands for Transfer CAPactitor, and supposedly this was backwards engineered from an alien craft (Roswell, supposedly!). I mean, they couldn't get a patent because supposedly that would go against the "Outer Space Treaty", or something. Anyway, not that I believe in aliens or anything,I couldn't care less where the tech came from (People say that the transistor came from alien tech. too, but I know that is rubbish, it is just two diodes stuck together, and as the diode was invented over 70 years ago, I can't believe that myself!), but it is supposedly possible to push it to 12-terahertz of speed, and, in my mind, is the future of processors, no matter how far they try and push transistors like IBM have tried to do. Try the following links for more info:
http://byamerican.com/abouttcap.htm
or just search on the net for ACC or TCAP. Sorry if the majority of people have already heard of this, but it makes this IBM tech seem less like a revolutionary tech, and more of a stop-gap.
You might be interested to know that researchers in Japan are discovering more and more evidence that neutrinos might have mass (albeit very small). If this is true, and as neutrinos are the most abundant particle in the universe, this will no doubt affect the expansion of the universe somehow, though how I haven't done enough thought on yet. My personal theory is that both the 'ever expanding universe' and the 'big bang, big crunch' theories can co-exist. If we imagine the universe like a ring donut shape, the hole in the middle is the place where the 'big bang' happened. On one half of the donut, the whole acts as the 'energy emitter' we expect from the big bang. It appears as if we are moving away from other objects in our galaxy because the 'energy emitter' is pushing us away. Simple enough. Now here is where my theory gets a little strange, either in a symbiotic alternative universe, or in something I will explain in minute, is the other side of the 'donut'. Here the 'object' that produces the 'big bang' is acting like a 'black hole'. This kind of link between 'big bang' and 'black holes' comes from some of the work that Steven Hawking has done, that suggests such a link could exist. All of the matter in this universe is being sucked in, coming out on the other side of the 'black hole', i.e. where the big bang took place. Here's the hard bit to swallow. When the matter in the normal side of the universe, i.e. the 'big bang' side, gets to the 'edge' of the donut, it does not go on getting further away from the 'donut hole', but instead gets pulled in by the 'black hole side', and so the loop continues. I have not decided yet whether the donut gets bigger or not, because I have not looked at this from the point of view of conservation of energy, but I will do soon. Again, I must stress this is only a theory, but you can't admit it is not bad for someone who is only 16!
Please no flaming. When was the last time any of the rest of you put anything as radical up as this? Never, I bet, so you cannot criticise. (Sorry!)
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You maybe interested to know (I found out in 1998, so it could be an old slashdot topic) that this is by no means the fastest processor tech. I have heard of. While I applaud IBM in their constant innovation, this is nothing compared with the TCAP chip, developed by ACC. TCAP stands for Transfer CAPactitor, and supposedly this was backwards engineered from an alien craft (Roswell, supposedly!). I mean, they couldn't get a patent because supposedly that would go against the "Outer Space Treaty", or something. Anyway, not that I believe in aliens or anything,I couldn't care less where the tech came from (People say that the transistor came from alien tech. too, but I know that is rubbish, it is just two diodes stuck together, and as the diode was invented over 70 years ago, I can't believe that myself!), but it is supposedly possible to push it to 12-terahertz of speed, and, in my mind, is the future of processors, no matter how far they try and push transistors like IBM have tried to do. Try the following links for more info: http://byamerican.com/abouttcap.htm or just search on the net for ACC or TCAP. Sorry if the majority of people have already heard of this, but it makes this IBM tech seem less like a revolutionary tech, and more of a stop-gap.
You might be interested to know that researchers in Japan are discovering more and more evidence that neutrinos might have mass (albeit very small). If this is true, and as neutrinos are the most abundant particle in the universe, this will no doubt affect the expansion of the universe somehow, though how I haven't done enough thought on yet. My personal theory is that both the 'ever expanding universe' and the 'big bang, big crunch' theories can co-exist. If we imagine the universe like a ring donut shape, the hole in the middle is the place where the 'big bang' happened. On one half of the donut, the whole acts as the 'energy emitter' we expect from the big bang. It appears as if we are moving away from other objects in our galaxy because the 'energy emitter' is pushing us away. Simple enough. Now here is where my theory gets a little strange, either in a symbiotic alternative universe, or in something I will explain in minute, is the other side of the 'donut'. Here the 'object' that produces the 'big bang' is acting like a 'black hole'. This kind of link between 'big bang' and 'black holes' comes from some of the work that Steven Hawking has done, that suggests such a link could exist. All of the matter in this universe is being sucked in, coming out on the other side of the 'black hole', i.e. where the big bang took place. Here's the hard bit to swallow. When the matter in the normal side of the universe, i.e. the 'big bang' side, gets to the 'edge' of the donut, it does not go on getting further away from the 'donut hole', but instead gets pulled in by the 'black hole side', and so the loop continues. I have not decided yet whether the donut gets bigger or not, because I have not looked at this from the point of view of conservation of energy, but I will do soon. Again, I must stress this is only a theory, but you can't admit it is not bad for someone who is only 16! Please no flaming. When was the last time any of the rest of you put anything as radical up as this? Never, I bet, so you cannot criticise. (Sorry!)