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Majorana Particle Found
#43384 04/27/12 02:02 AM
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Newly discovered Majorana particles are scientists' best chance to create subatomic supercomputers that could store as many pieces of information as there are particles in the universe

Discovery was made by researchers in the Netherlands who say it could be applied to make today's computer technology obsolete

http://uk.reuters.com/video/2012/04/26/s...deoChannel=4000

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17695944

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Re: Majorana Particle Found
Mike Kremer #43387 04/27/12 04:16 AM
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There is a more detailed physics discussion here
(http://phys.org/news/2012-04-evidence-majorana-fermions.html)


This week we had the report of the first actual quantum simulator
(http://phys.org/news/2012-04-physicists-benchmark-quantum-simulator-hundreds.html). That puts it beyond the storage and computational power of any computer today.

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Re: Majorana Particle Found
Mike Kremer #43391 04/27/12 11:41 AM
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Quote:
Newly discovered Majorana particles are scientists' best chance to create subatomic supercomputers that could store as many pieces of information as there are particles in the universe


Which raises the question: could there be more pieces of information than there are particles in the universe?

There never was nothing.

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