Discovery of a "Flat" Atom Hailed as Quantum Computing Breakthrough 205
msw writes to tell us that nanoelectronics researchers have discovered a new molecule that could act as a state-manipulable atom due to its unique shape and properties. "Imagine a tiny arsenic atom embedded in a tiny strip of silicon atoms. An electric current is applied. Something strange arises on the surface -- an exotic molecule. On one end is the spherical submerged arsenic atom; on the other end is an 'artificial' flat atom, seemingly 2D, created as an artifact. The pair form an exotic molecule, which has a shared electron, which can be manipulated to be at either end, or in an intermediate quantum state."
Quick !! Couple the quantum inverters !!! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Quantum State (Score:5, Funny)
He meant to say interdeterminatable.
Not sure, but sounds tasty (Score:5, Funny)
Electron sighting... (Score:1, Funny)
With a 2D atom scientists can now predict (with considerably more accuracy) where that electron is located! This is amazing.
Re:I am far too stupid (Score:3, Funny)
Sadly, these flat atoms will never get the attention that more endowed atoms get on a regular basis.
Youngsters (Score:5, Funny)
Back in my day, the President of the United States declared that arsenic counted as a vegetable in our school lunches, and although we didn't much like the taste, we all did our part to defeat the commies and make the world free. And this is the thanks the next generation has for us -- gettin' all uppity about using it in computers. Sheesh!
"Tiny Arsenic Atom" ?? (Score:5, Funny)
Is there a big variety I'm unaware of?
Re:"Tiny Arsenic Atom" ?? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:What do they mean by an "atom"? (Score:4, Funny)
Ah, now it makes more sense.
And now for something completely different...
And to demonstrate that there is nothing so weird that the quacks won't latch onto it, when I googled on Positronium I discovered that someone is claiming that they have a homeopathic remedy created from the decay of Positronium.
http://www.hominf.org/posi/posifr.htm [hominf.org]
Such gems as Since positronium is made up of both particle and anti-particle, it assumes a position mid way between matter and anti-matter. When it decays, it is converted into a pulse of pure energy. This threefold state has been picked up by a number of provers for whom the number 3 was prevalent in dreams and waking experiences. It also provides a convenient way to arrange and "map" (to see the map, a visual representation of the remedy, click here) the symptoms and themes of the proving, as we shall see later.
Holy mother of Mendeleev, what a load of collywobbles.
I, for one... (Score:2, Funny)
am tired of these flat molecules. I want the largest, firmest and the most ample molecules that I can get my hands on...
Wait... was thinking of something else. Never mind.
Re:Quantum State (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, the electron has been interdeterminaterized
Re:Sure (Score:3, Funny)
and they would be actually be inside the chips. I can't see how they would pose a danger to anyone.
Puts away salsa
What?
Happy Accident (Score:3, Funny)
from the breakthroughs-by-mistake dept.
There's a word for that, just on the tip of my mind, meaning happy accident... ah yes: schadenfreude.
Re:Quantum State (Score:3, Funny)
Quantum Computing is going to seriously mess with those who worked so hard to accept that (1 OR 0) = 1.
Re:Quantum State (Score:4, Funny)
Obligatory (Score:1, Funny)
In Soviet Russia, atoms flatten you.
FTF Summary (Score:3, Funny)
All I was able to grasp was
Imagine ...
Reading everything after caused my brain to spin into the guard rail.
Re:Quick !! Couple the quantum inverters !!! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Quantum State (Score:3, Funny)
"that -1 should have been a 0. Sorry."
I get the feeling quantum computers are going to have to say that a lot.
Re:How dare you sir !!! (Score:5, Funny)
and those subjects you mentioned are fictional devices from a bad 1980s movie and therefore, Offtopic.
wow.
you are sure you are in the right website ? you surely dont fit well with the demographic here. i would rather chop my own balls than call Back to the Future a bad movie in slashdot.
and from this flat atom was born a new element... (Score:2, Funny)