«We built what is essentially a clock that can
time moving electrons like a stopwatch,» Monti says.
Not exact matches
electrons move around protons), intelligence needs
time, energy requires
time.
If science can figure out how to
move electrons across silicon, it can teach watchmakers how to tell us the temperature, the weather, the altitude, the day of the week, the direction of magnetic north, and, yes, even the
time — all on the face of a single wristwatch.
Quantum theory predicts that in a two - dimensional
electron system, where
moving electrons are confined to one plane, under a strong magnetic field
electrons also will be restricted to climbing only one step of the energy level ladder at a
time.
This
time there would be no need for huge external magnetic fields or ultra-low temperatures to get the
electrons moving in unison.
What's next: Weber and Gao and their colleagues hope to apply the work to more complex materials to look at how trapped
electrons affect the way defects
move and interact with each other when the material is exposed to more than one blast of radiation over longer
times in much larger systems and at higher levels of radiation.
You're
moving physical objects around and that takes physical
time, not like LCD displays that change the state of
electrons.»
These are the big ones that will ensure your eBook will be covered with digital dust in the
time it takes to
move a few million
electrons around the globe.