Magnets, how do they work?
I bet that we and the Norwegians are paying for most of this and doing most of the research but the Chinese will steal it all.
Research cooperation with China has to stop immediately.
re: “Today’s computers rely on ferromagnets (the same kind that stick to your refrigerator) to align the binary 1s and 0s that process and store information. “
Core (magnetic) memory, so, 1950’s ....
Ping to Magnet discovery.
Now maybe we can anti gravity propulsion. I’d slap on a belt and float above the bilabong fishing for salmon.
Magnet research is not very attractive
I suggest that we just dig up the Founding Fathers, wrap their corpses in copper wire and surround them with magnets.
The amount of electricity they produce by their constant and rapid spinning in their graves will provide all the electricity that 21st century societies will ever need.
I must be getting old as I remember when 1 millisecond access to a ferite core was considered fast.
When you’re locked up at home and run out of shows to watch.
Why can’t we have a magnet train like they have in Japan?
My grandfather graduated from Princeton with a degree in finance in 1929 (not the best timing). He went on to a career in banking. Like most college students, he had to take some science classes which did not especially interest him.
In a Physics class, the teacher was discussing magnetism and mentioned that a number of metals had magnetic qualities — nickel and cobalt were two examples. “But there is no metal more attractive than iron” the professor stated.
My grandfather dug out a $20 gold piece and held it up. “Here is metal more attractive”, he said. I was not told the professor’s reaction to this impertinence.
I am a computer dude, got into it in 1978.
I can tell you that 1s and 0s are “brute force”. For example, if you collapse all the processing power on the planet, you might have 1 human brain’s ability.
Thz could help v Ghz, but we STILL don’t know how the magic of encoding in neurons work.
This reminds me of the story of a guy named Tate who decided to start manufacturing compasses. But Tate didn’t understand magnetism, so his compasses didn’t point to the north. They pointed any old which way. And that is the origin of the saying, “He who has a Tate’s is lost.” Ain’t eddycation grate?
Yeah but the only problem is eventually you head will get stuck to the refrigerator door.
Core memories went out a really long time ago. How would anyone claim that ferromagnetics are used for storage? Are they referring to the disk drives, or the RAM? At any rate, disk isn’t part of the computational speed issue.