24 Jul
2008
24 Jul
'08
3:40 p.m.
Brent Hilpert wrote:
Jules Richardson wrote:
There's been some big developments in the past several years on slowing
the speed of light, for future computer design applications, including
memory storage. It'll save far more space in your footprint with optical
fiber. Some experimental solutions have already decreased the speed of
light to slower than a baseball pitch using a gelled sodium solution
cooled down to near absolute zero. Maybe you can get your hands on these
recent new devices, such as the photonic waveguides from IBM which are
more practical but still need work on reducing the speed even further at
room temperature. It might be still $$$ too :)
http://tinyurl.com/6s6j96
=Dan
[ Pittsburgh 250th --- http://www2.applegate.org/~ragooman/ ]
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Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 23 Jul 2008 at 22:08, Scanning wrote:
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>> If you want the respect and awe of the group show us your gravitas and use a
spool of fibre optic cable as the "media" and blink your data in through an LED
or LASER diode.
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> Crikey, I couldn't afford enough fiber to recirculate a megabit
Typical
bit rates for magnetostrictive delay lines used in 1960s-era
calculators was on the order of 200 - 600KHz.