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Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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OfflineNashbar
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Re: Which atom will define the 21th century? [Re: Catalysis]
    #5622877 - 05/12/06 09:12 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

I'm a material engineer.

For the 21th :smile: century, I choose yttrium. 

I've made some real neat optical ceramics with Y2O3, but the important application for the future might be superconductors made from YBCuO ceramics.


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Re: Which atom will define the 21th century? [Re: Nashbar]
    #5623138 - 05/12/06 10:29 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

what have you made? and do you have a pic or somthing of what y203 is.


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one branch of man turns away what has made us who we are, the other,excepts it for how its made man. which path do you choose?
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Man takes advantage of who he is,nature is his home, where he evolved from. So why does he turn it down, defy, and mutalate his birth ground? why does he spread disease, murder his native animals,rape and torture his land, and still feel descent of who he is? live a life that is not true? excepts an artificial home?


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Re: Which atom will define the 21th century? [Re: inoculatedGreif]
    #5623754 - 05/13/06 03:16 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

> The question is, what is going to replace silicon?

Light. (sort of) Opitical computing seems to be the next natural progression of silicon based computing technology. I know everybody is talking about quantum computers, but my guess is that optical based processing will occur first.


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Re: Which atom will define the 21th century? [Re: Seuss]
    #5623798 - 05/13/06 03:52 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Xenon, because I liked the videogame.


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Re: Which atom will define the 21th century? [Re: Seuss]
    #5625121 - 05/13/06 04:02 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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> The question is, what is going to replace silicon?

Light. (sort of) Opitical computing seems to be the next natural progression of silicon based computing technology. I know everybody is talking about quantum computers, but my guess is that optical based processing will occur first.




I read in SciAm a few months back that someone had managed to create a FULLY optical switch - which is obviously the first (and IMHO the most important) step to creating a fully optical processor.


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Re: Which atom will define the 21th century? [Re: Catalysis]
    #5626821 - 05/13/06 11:05 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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What about silicon though?




The question is, what is going to replace silicon?  :wink:




I take it that silicon isn't going to be all that useful once we can't pack any more transistors together/make them smaller and we switch over to quantum computing?

Is that what was kind of implied by this thread, or am I retard who knows nothing about physics/computer science?


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Re: Which atom will define the 21th century? [Re: Catalysis]
    #5645625 - 05/18/06 09:16 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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Catalysis said:
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What about silicon though?




The question is, what is going to replace silicon?  :wink:




IBM did work with carbon nanotubes in 2001 as a silicon replacement. I don't really know what they've done since then.

IBM Scientists Develop Breakthrough Transistor Technology with Carbon Nanotubes


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Re: Which atom will define the 21th century? [Re: Toboggan]
    #5647208 - 05/18/06 06:06 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Unobtanium. Can't get it anymore but we sure will wish we could.


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Re: Which atom will define the 21th century? [Re: Nashbar]
    #5649181 - 05/19/06 05:51 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

> I'm a material engineer.

Cool, another mud jock! I did a little work with ceramics as an undergrad measuring seabeck coefficients of different ceramics at various temperatures. I never actually mixed the ceramics, but was around the materials research building quite a lot.


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Re: Which atom will define the 21th century? [Re: Asante]
    #5651457 - 05/19/06 08:11 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

"Which atom will define the 21th century?"

uhhhh...  all of them? 

:rofl: @ this discussion.


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