Tiny crystal may hold key to future of computers by an extraordinary 80 orders of magnitude -- a one with 80 zeros after it

Sweet now the average turd can down load porn 80 billion times faster.

You can grow quartz, you don't need to harvest it, and I was shown that anything we run, is very limited. you could virtualize a mega system inside a crystal both system, ie virtualized hardware, software, storage, the whole thing, and put it in a very attractive holder and hook it to a monitor.

Imagine the gfx.

Wouldn't be able to tell the difference between real and not-real...

it will be 20 years before the technology trickles down to the consumer.. and when it does.. we will all become augmented cyborgs.. fully programmable slaves.. with not an independent thought amongst us. WARNING>>DOES NOT COMPUTE>>

Since all our computer technology is back-engineered from captured alien devices, I can't wait till we can order direct.

whats that ? about 100 Quinquavigintillion times faster than todays computers.

good !

Will it run Linux?

crystals are very intelligent creatures.
look how finely they organize themselves and grow, just right, every time.
...there's no telling what they are doing inside all of
that once they bring themselves into being.

oh geez.....like faux is the only news organization reporting this incredible news......geez....

No, 80 orders of magnitude is correct.

Here is a different article describing it a bit better.

"As the number of qubits increase, the number or states increases exponentially. For example, 2 qubits can simultaneously be in 4 states, 3 qubits in 8 states: 2 to the power of n states for n qubits."
[link to www.abc.net.au]

As compared to the simple binary of our current computers.

So if true, we now have an idea of the minimum computational capacity of a space faring civilization. At least 80 orders of magnitude more "intelligent" than a human (at least their AI). Sure there are some assumptions in there (that we haven't missed or suppressed some fundamental physics, that life exists elsewhere in the universe, etc).

Strange days are ahead, if we make it long enough to witness them.

BTW, just smoked out, so take everything in my post with a haze of smoke...

.....taking a deep breathe......

for the uninitiated:

"orders of magnitude" is a scientific term (kinda like "astronomical units")

so, 80 orders of magnitude means "multiplied by 10, 80 times".

Man's dream of the perfect sex robot may finally be achieved!

That's amazing. I remember an article once from PopSci, that talked about stacks of atoms, that looked sort of like coconut, that was going to revolutionize the computer industry. Guess they did it, but this came along later and is way better.
Quantum computers that have electrons in two places at the same time. Unless you are looking at it LOL

must be a crystal from krypton.

so, instead of saying something is 100,000 times bigger than "x",
one can, rather, say: something is 5 orders of magnitude bigger than "x"

scientific language is very precise. there is never any
room for ambiguity.

This will help me locate more demons...

man against machine here we come.

just think: all of you "gamers" could be corn-hole buddies!

CRYSTALS FTW!!!!


Welcome to the new world folks!

When & if this thing does come in to use, it will only we a matter of time before the nutjobs start claiming it was found at Roswell!

Heck, give him a magnitude 80 raise xD

Actually, that's not quite correct. US Republicans operate under the impression that it's a tit-for-tat pissing contest your engaged in. Where Republicans see any non-Fox news organization as liberal propaganda, and Democrats see Fox News as the Republican propaganda station.

But if you step outside that little bubble you live in, you'll find that pretty much the entire rest of the world sees Fox News as a Republican Propaganda station, and just sees CNN as a poor excuse for a news network that is more 'entertainment' oriented than 'news' oriented.

While there are definitely liberal propaganda media organizations (MSNBC is obviously), the 'liberal media' does not exist.

The reality of the situation, is that what you see as 'liberal media' is actually just 'non-US Republican media', which is actually 'what everyone else in the world just considers "media" media'

10-20 years before you see anything....and even then only for government and scientific programs.

iCrystal (tm)

Yes, we are transiting from carbon based physical reality to crystaline physical reality! So, this is the new/old technologies soon to be utilized. Humans used these in the past as technologies..aka the experience of Atlantis. Atlantis was an exsistance world wide..not just an island. A crystal contains all the energetic memory of the planet since it was first formed until it was severed. The complete shift in consciousness will be aand create many many wonderful things and technologies...this is the start.

And they will roll it out 1 order at a time so they have several lifetimes of upgrades built into the production - keep stringing us along.

Then Yahoo will be able to post articles somewhat faster but they will still not show photos when the title says new photo.