Using photonics for real-time processing.

MooseFET wrote:

On May 24, 2:14 am, "Michael A. Terrell"

He would implode. Do you have any idea what kind of mess that would
make?

No, I disagree. He would explode. It would be an exothermic BS
reaction making more heat than light.


I was talking about his vacuum packed head imploding.


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prove it.
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says...
On May 24, 6:11 am, Radium wrote:
On May 23, 11:21 pm, "Bob Myers" wrote:

If you can describe just what you mean by "photonic
chips" and the principles on which such things might
operate, then maybe that question would be more readily
answered.

An electronic chip uses electricity for storage, recording, playback,
transmission, reception, and processing of signals.

A photonic chip uses monochromatic light [hopefully in the form of
lasers] for storage, recording, playback, transmission, reception, and
processing of signals.

The problem is, how to store photons?


Storing photons directly requires crystals that are supercooled. This
isn't very practical. You really just want to store the information
it contains.

Far less than half the atoms you were made from 10 years ago are still
in your body.

Don't know about you, but I was made a tad longer than ten years ago.
;-)

You are still you, however. You are the information
encoded in those atoms not the atoms. The same is true of software.
It is not the electrons of photons. It is the bits.

Hmm, maybe the concept of the teleporter isn't so bad....

--
Keith

On Thu, 24 May 2007 09:00:59 -0600, in sci.electronics.design Donald
wrote:

martin griffith wrote:
On 24 May 2007 06:11:23 -0700, in sci.electronics.design Radium
wrote:


On May 23, 11:21 pm, "Bob Myers" wrote:


If you can describe just what you mean by "photonic
chips" and the principles on which such things might
operate, then maybe that question would be more readily
answered.

An electronic chip uses electricity for storage, recording, playback,
transmission, reception, and processing of signals.

A photonic chip uses monochromatic light [hopefully in the form of
lasers] for storage, recording, playback, transmission, reception, and
processing of signals.

The problem is, how to store photons?



Silver Indium Antimony Tellurium alloy?

Yes, but this is a write _only_ solution.

donald

Sorry, I thought it was a light_only_solution


martin

On Thu, 24 May 2007 07:32:01 +0000, SteveH wrote:
Bob Myers wrote:
"Radium" wrote in message
oups.com...
Do you think the heat generated and power requirements will decrease
when photonic chips are available?

If you can describe just what you mean by "photonic
chips" and the principles on which such things might
operate, then maybe that question would be more readily
answered.

Or he could just stop talking ********

Is Asperger's more like autism, or more like Tourette's?

Thanks,
Rich

On Thu, 24 May 2007 15:07:31 +0000, Michael A. Terrell wrote:
MooseFET wrote:
On May 24, 2:14 am, "Michael A. Terrell"

He would implode. Do you have any idea what kind of mess that would
make?

No, I disagree. He would explode. It would be an exothermic BS
reaction making more heat than light.

I was talking about his vacuum packed head imploding.

Boy, you never miss an opportunity to cast insults, do you?

It must really suck to be you.

Thanks,
Rich

On Thu, 24 May 2007 06:11:23 -0700, Radium wrote:
On May 23, 11:21 pm, "Bob Myers" wrote:

If you can describe just what you mean by "photonic
chips" and the principles on which such things might
operate, then maybe that question would be more readily
answered.

An electronic chip uses electricity for storage, recording, playback,
transmission, reception, and processing of signals.

A photonic chip uses monochromatic light [hopefully in the form of
lasers] for storage, recording, playback, transmission, reception, and
processing of signals.

The problem is, how to store photons?

I keep telling you - you'll have to discover the principles yourself, and
inform the rest of the world how it's done - everybody else thinks it's
impossible.

Good Luck!
Rich

On Thu, 24 May 2007 16:11:57 +0200, martin griffith wrote:
On 24 May 2007 06:11:23 -0700, in sci.electronics.design Radium
wrote:
On May 23, 11:21 pm, "Bob Myers" wrote:

If you can describe just what you mean by "photonic
chips" and the principles on which such things might
operate, then maybe that question would be more readily
answered.

An electronic chip uses electricity for storage, recording, playback,
transmission, reception, and processing of signals.

A photonic chip uses monochromatic light [hopefully in the form of
lasers] for storage, recording, playback, transmission, reception, and
processing of signals.

The problem is, how to store photons?

Silver Indium Antimony Tellurium alloy?

Sulfur Hydrogen Iodine Tellurium, I'd think. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

On May 24, 10:06 am, Rich Grise wrote:

Is Asperger's more like autism, or more like Tourette's?

Asperger's resembles autism and ADHD more than anything else. As a
kid, my diagnosis kept swinging from ADD to ADHD to autism, and back
and forth, until the doctors found my symptoms to specifically match
Asperger's.

On Thu, 24 May 2007 17:12:49 GMT, in sci.electronics.design Rich Grise
wrote:

On Thu, 24 May 2007 16:11:57 +0200, martin griffith wrote:
On 24 May 2007 06:11:23 -0700, in sci.electronics.design Radium
wrote:
On May 23, 11:21 pm, "Bob Myers" wrote:

If you can describe just what you mean by "photonic
chips" and the principles on which such things might
operate, then maybe that question would be more readily
answered.

An electronic chip uses electricity for storage, recording, playback,
transmission, reception, and processing of signals.

A photonic chip uses monochromatic light [hopefully in the form of
lasers] for storage, recording, playback, transmission, reception, and
processing of signals.

The problem is, how to store photons?

Silver Indium Antimony Tellurium alloy?

Sulfur Hydrogen Iodine Tellurium, I'd think. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgInSbTe


martin

In article ,
Michael A. Terrell wrote:
SteveH wrote:

Bob Myers wrote:
"Radium" wrote in message
oups.com...
Do you think the heat generated and power requirements will decrease
when photonic chips are available?

If you can describe just what you mean by "photonic
chips" and the principles on which such things might
operate, then maybe that question would be more readily
answered.

Bob M.

Or he could just stop talking ********

He would implode. Do you have any idea what kind of mess that would
make?

As long as he's nowhere nearby, I don't care. Let him implode. :-)

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