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The newest Pentium chip powering PCs and laptops contains 40 million electronic switches packed onto a piece of silicon about the size of a thumbnail. Several years from now, if this incredible shrinking continues, a single chip will hold a billion switches, then a trillion. The logical culmination is a computer in which the switches are so tiny that each consists of an individual atom. At that point something miraculous happens: quantum mechanics kick in. Anyone who follows the science news or watches 'Star Trek' has at least a notion of what that means: particles can be in two or more places at once. Atoms obey a peculiar logic of their own - and if it can be harnessed society will be transformed. Problems that would now take forever would be solved almost instantly. Quantum computing promises nothing less than a shortcut through time.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Science: general issues Popular science

• Full title: Shortcut Through Time
• Author: George Johnson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780099452171
• ISBN: 0099452170
• ID: 04016969
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 165 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 133 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. June 2004

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