if a atom is taken as referanca to store bits as u know atom's valance shells have electrons so these electrons can behave as wavs as be de-Brogliee Law any matter have wave as well as partical characteristics so ,if a electrons follows wave characteristics than it can be simultaneously in lower as well as higher orbits .If lower position is taken as 0 level and higher as 1.Than an atom is enough to store bytes,Hence size of computer reduces 10000 times small
can computer can be made 10000times smaller
Nov 28, 2005
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Something like that is probably theoretically possible, but we're a long way from having the technology to do it (as far as I know)
Before we get to that point, we'll all be using quantum computers (
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There's a theoretical limit on the size of object that can be used to store data, which is the planck length - (
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