Chips Could Crunch at Light Speed

[endersgame21]

Researchers at IBM have used carbon molecules to emit light, a breakthrough that could replace silicon as the foundation of chips and lead to faster computers and telecommunication equipment.

The focus of the research team was ultratiny, tube-shaped carbon molecules, or nanotubes, that are more than 50,000 times thinner than an average human hair, according to a statement from IBM released this week.

The scientists were able to engineer the carbon nanotubes not only to conduct current, but also to emit light.

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[Crazy Horse]

Nanotechnology - amazing stuff. Star Trek stuff happening now. Transporters are something I would like to see in my lifetime.

[Kyle06]

Originally posted by Crazy Horse
Transporters are something I would like to see in my lifetime.

I agree that would be really neat.. Also I think this technology will be neat when we all need to get new comuters cause these are soooooooooooooooooooooo out dated lol

[gumdrop ink]

its good to see stuff like this becoming a reality, seeing as how we have totally wasted the last 20 or so years on improving toothpaste and other common house hold items instead of advancing real technology. just think we could be traveling space right now or alteast a hell of a lot more closer to it if the dark ages had never happened

[sr2005]

Originally posted by Crazy Horse
Transporters are something I would like to see in my lifetime.

Ha, i was in a discussion about that not too long ago. But, i dunno if it's ever gonna be possible. Breaking something apart and putting it back together is one thing, but keeping a person alive while doing it is another. But you could transport objects i guess. It would be awesome to be able to step onto a little platform and be on the other side of the world in no time though. Mmmm... no more long car trips.

[gumdrop ink]

transporters would be kool but i highly doubt any of us will see them in out life times for the simple fact that if the become possible its going to put the auto industy and the airline industry completely outta business and im really sorry to say but in a world driven by greed it just wont happen. come on now. ten years and we put a man on the moon. the internal combustion engine i believe (dont quote me on this) has been around for a hundred years or so and we cant manage to find a better cleaner way to get around. come on now

[endersgame21]

Originally posted by sr2005
Ha, i was in a discussion about that not too long ago. But, i dunno if it's ever gonna be possible. Breaking something apart and putting it back together is one thing, but keeping a person alive while doing it is another. But you could transport objects i guess. It would be awesome to be able to step onto a little platform and be on the other side of the world in no time though. Mmmm... no more long car trips.

I don't know if you would have to keep the person alive. You could "break them apart" in one place and reconstruct them in another, their organs and everything. It would be like making a copy of them. An excellent book on this topic is Timeline by Michael Chricton.

[ManaSmoker]

Haha Crazyhorse im still waiting for cars to fly and highways to be replaced by air roads such as seen in Back To The Future Trilogies , my favorite movies.

[Psilaxs]

Ahh, nano technology, the non existent solution for all of technologies problems.


Sorry, i do not mean to sound cynical, but i have been keeping up on what's going on with "nano technology" for nearly a decade, and no real tangible progress has been made.

We'll get there someday (and i hope we do) but i still feel it is a long ways off.

When ever you read about some far reaching technology, and how they will overcome current limitations (whether it is aerospace, medical, manufacturing, computers etc) the first thing they say is "NANO TECHNOLOGY" and (insert two paragraphs that most people without a PHD in nuclear and quantum physics wont understand) and there you go, the solution to all of mans problems. lol

On an optimistic note though, I am hopeful of nano technology.

I just feel TOO much hope has been invested in it, rather then a natural progression towards plausible NT solutions.

It is the proverbial "Magic Bullet" for science

[Crazy Horse]

I knew I left myself wide open with that transporter comment but I am an optimist. You have to remember I was here before cell phones, computers, "stereo", and alot of other marvelous inventions. In the last 20 years our technology has advanced leaps and bounds.

Mana: I, too, am still waiting for those flying cars an air roads that I read about as a child.

Ender: excellent book-yea I read it too.

I hope I live another 20 years to see what new advances become reality. Especially in the medical field. All it takes is ideas and an imagination.

[notbob]

that article isn't so much about chips as it is about transmitting over fiber optic lines

the mini "torches" would go on and off sending binary messages via light, and therefore would go at the speed of light

current optical tech uses LED's or lasers, which compared to these nanotorches is like sending a shotgun vs. an aimed bullet

this technology would be almost worthless in a chip

[isus]

and when will we see the first cpu using this technology? 100 years? ehh... maybe not, but still, it'kk be silicon for the next 5 at least.

[Rickio]

ancient history or at least what was written in ancient text reads almost like science fiction.

there are ancient sumerian texts which indicate that earth was seeded by extra terrstrials and even more ancient texts speak of traveling to the stars by use of astral or spiritual travel.

Not saying any of it is true but as far as imagination is concerned it indicates that many of the things we imagine now have been thought of and tried in the past with spiritual practices.

well just a bit of weirdness there lol

if you want to know where I read that Zacharia Sitchin has some interesting deep reads on some of this stuff.

there was a story of how ancient astronauts used some computer like devices to alter dna and help create humans which were according to this story in the ancient text. humans were partly earth beings with there dna spliced to some extra- terrestrial beings dna.

weird and like I say these are ancient writings.

peace

[chipperrox]

Originally posted by endersgame21
I don't know if you would have to keep the person alive. You could "break them apart" in one place and reconstruct them in another, their organs and everything. It would be like making a copy of them. An excellent book on this topic is Timeline by Michael Chricton.

Yea love that book- but uh wasn't that under the FICTION section?

[d.crowley]

Originally posted by endersgame21
An excellent book on this topic is Timeline by Michael Chricton.

well, crichton is fun, but you ARE aware that timeline is a fictious book, right? the story might be *inspired by scientific backgrounds, but it's not based on facts or something...