Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
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Monday, September 21, 2009

PH111: links relevant to today's lecture

These are by no means exhaustive, but are just a few introductory-level discussions of some of the things we talked about today.

A nanotechnology lecture by Feynman from 1959 (!).

Information processing and thermodynamics
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Physical limits of computing
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Thursday, September 17, 2009

PH111: Drake equation, next seminar

Interesting article about updates to the Drake equation.

Next week, I'll be giving the seminar again, this time on information storage physics. There will be some light reading posted later today, but for now you might peruse this older talk I gave. (Warning, 22Mb PDF.) It is specifically about magnetic information storage, but might get you thinking along the right lines.