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Re:What if you knew how computers work? (2015) by WalterBright on Saturday October 10, 2020 @02:36PM (#24740891)
True, but transistors do not behave in a newtonian physics manner, whereas we do just fine understanding most physics using conventional newtonian mechanics.
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Re:What if you knew how computers work? (2015) by amelius on Saturday October 10, 2020 @03:06PM (#24741092)
This makes me wonder what Newtonian physics we actually use in computing?
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Re:What if you knew how computers work? (2015) by WalterBright on Saturday October 10, 2020 @06:15PM (#24742264)
Non-transistor electronics relies on Maxwell's Equations. While not Newtonian mechanics, it is part of classical (pre-Einstein) physics.
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