Re:Transistors are civilization’s invisible infrastructure
by colordrops on Friday December 09, 2022 @01:44PM
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This dawned on me as well when I watched a Feynman video on electromagnetism. He talked about that you can explain the "how" of its working, but not the "why". The fundamental forces of the universe are basically magic fields. And this is true for anything that is fundamental and can't be deconstructed further into more primary components.
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Re:Transistors are civilization’s invisible infrastructure
by chinabot on Friday December 09, 2022 @02:54PM
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This! Its not an 8 layer ISO stack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model), there many layers below the first layer some of which nobody understands.
Re:Transistors are civilization’s invisible infrastructure
by fragmede on Friday December 09, 2022 @06:36PM
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Layer one encompasses the physical layer so I'm not convinced there's an additional layer to be had. It does require a deep understanding of the physics involved though.
Re:Transistors are civilization’s invisible infrastructure
by dtgriscom on Friday December 09, 2022 @09:04PM
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We have a clear and clean description of the apparent bottom layer of the universe, but we also have clear evidence that it's incomplete, that there's something else going on. So, physicists are spending billions of dollars trying to look one layer deeper and find "new physics." To no avail, yet...