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guest_
· 5 years ago
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There were no printed circuits on our old electronics. Wires. Huge masses of wires. Well- then came various improvements and sandwiched designs and then the PCB and it was tiny- but compared to a modern one huge. They said there was an ABSOLUTE limit to the distance between traces on a PCB. Less than X distanve apart and the electrical signal would jump across and interfere. Then they figured out how to break that and make smaller PCBs with closer traces. They went from millimeters to nanometers apart. Onward it marches. They say there is a limit to how small we can get the hardware because at some point the electrons become larger than the hardware itself. Well- I imagine they’ll fix that too. Absolutes are misleading. Limits exist until they are broken.
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nightkami
· 5 years ago
There was an actual study done on that whole grapes in a microwave thing which it turns out is creating high energy plasma on a ridiculously small contact point. Supposedly this is leading to a new design method for PCBs thats gonna keep Moore's law rolling. At least for the time being.
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guest_
· 5 years ago
Oh snaps. Thank you. I’m going to google that. I was not aware.
nightkami
· 5 years ago
Well this particular one doesnt mention what I was talking about but talks about a few other possible uses. I just happen to come across it just a bit ago. https://gizmodo.com/scientists-produce-rigorous-study-of-why-grapes-spark-i-1832660386
guest_
· 5 years ago
Not a bad read, and it makes sense that there could be merit. While the gravity-Apple correlation is thought to mostly be a story- science often finds inspiration in novel or evenmundane places. Thank you twice now. I appreciate you sourcing that.
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