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ImminentZero t1_j4vlpw1 wrote

Reply to comment by LiCHtsLiCH in Energy Teleportation and Negative Energy Observed in Quantum Research Breakthrough by Gari_305

>Quantum seems hokey

The device you're using to type this comment exists explicitly because of quantum mechanics. Modern chip fabrication exists due to discoveries related to quantum mechanics. It's far from hokey, it's responsible for most of our modern day technological existence.

You don't get to smartphones with pure old solid state electronics.

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LiCHtsLiCH t1_j4vpamt wrote

Interesting, I've heard from very few people that dual thread cores were the "original" quantum breakthrough, that tidbit was swept under the rug very quickly. Not sure why. At the same time cross processing multiple threads to speed things up isn't necessarily a Quantum behavior. Put the gates close enough together it could very easily be induction, the charge in one gate being the same (1 or 0 (think of it as + or negative) but the same) or not the same gives the three states you need to get some benefit to multiple thread resolution as the proposed "Quantum" effect you just mentioned. Lastly, thanks for keeping it real.

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Buddahrific t1_j4wdvbb wrote

Dual thread cores have nothing to do with quantum mechanics (other than how they affect physics in general). It's just duplicating some resources that can't be shared and adding an identifier bit to the others that can be shared and taking advantage of instruction level parallelism mechanisms to execute instructions from two threads at once.

While some quantum mechanics effects are used in computing (eg flash memory uses quantum tunneling to write values into bits), quantum effects are more of a limiting factor for bleeding edge classical computing. Things are packed so closely together that it's difficult to prevent undesired quantum tunneling, which breaks the rules we normally associate with electrical circuits, like current preferring to flow through a conductive connection instead of through insulation protecting a nearby conductor.

Though, that said, the fact that we continue to make progress at the bleeding edge despite that implies that these quantum effects are becoming better understood and designs are at least compensating for them, if not outright taking advantage of them. But that's at a lower level than bigger features like hyperthreading.

Computers that use quantum effects at a higher level are called quantum computers.

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LiCHtsLiCH t1_j4wkyma wrote

Interesting so USB accidentally incorporates quantum tunneling, shame its not as fast as a USB upgrade, like 3.0 versus 2.0. The fact that it's accidental, and slower, means that it could just be a theory, and probably not a good way to understand it. Also you agreed with me on the multi thread thing. However Quantum computers using a multi position "gate/switch" don't exist, thats all I was trying to say. Another reply I recieved outlined a micrsoft language called Q, it is a service of Azure, and not an actual multi gate language. However, the probability of Azure creating a multi gate language is much higher than people doing it, but I don't think that's its purpose. More importantly, we need a stable processor, which nobody has, I mean how else are you gonna test it. As soon as you hear -273 degrees to gain function, you should grasp.... it's not gonna work. Again thanks for the reply.

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Buddahrific t1_j4wmzmq wrote

That's flash storage that uses tunnelling, not USB. USB is just regular electric signals traveling along a conductor serially (as in one bit at a time and opposed to parallel, which would have multiple bits at a time).

Flash USB sticks are common, but you can have flash without USB and USB without flash. Flash is how it saves the data, USB is how the data is transferred between the storage and device using it.

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LiCHtsLiCH t1_j4wq30g wrote

Yeah, I understood what you were saying. USB, is an interface, the rate at which data is transmitted is not effected by Quantum tunneling was my point. Last I checked nobody is building flash memory with special spacing or design to increase read and writes using this theory. Also, if it was used as a storage technique, you'd think it would have a different name, or a performance increase. Simply put, I'm not aware of this theory being used in any practical application... or any Quantum theory for that matter.

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