{"id":183003,"date":"2024-02-18T11:24:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T17:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/femtotech-computing-at-the-femtometer-scale-using-quarks-and-gluons-from-hugo-de-garis"},"modified":"2024-02-18T11:24:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T17:24:05","slug":"femtotech-computing-at-the-femtometer-scale-using-quarks-and-gluons-from-hugo-de-garis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/femtotech-computing-at-the-femtometer-scale-using-quarks-and-gluons-from-hugo-de-garis","title":{"rendered":"Femtotech: computing at the femtometer scale using quarks and gluons from Hugo de Garis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/femtotech-computing-at-the-femtometer-scale-using-quarks-and-gluons-from-hugo-de-garis.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sept 22 2016.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/femtotech-computing-at-the-femtometer-scale-using-quarks-and-gluons\" =blank target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kurzweilai \u2013 How the properties of quarks and gluons can be used (in principle) to perform computation at the femtometer (10^\u221215 meter) scale.<\/A><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An atom is about 10^\u221210 m in size.<\/p>\n<p>The next smallest thing in nature is the nucleus, which is about 100,000 times smaller, i.e., 10^\u221215 m in size \u2014 a femtometer, or \u201cfermi.\u201d A nucleus is composed of protons and neutrons (i.e., \u201cnucleons\u201d), which we now know are composed of 3 quarks, which are bound (\u201cglued\u201d) together by massless (photon-like) particles called \u201cgluons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hence if one wanted to start thinking about a possible femtotech, one would probably need to start looking at how quarks and gluons behave, and see if these behaviors might be manipulated in such a way as to create a technology, i.e., computation and engineering (building stuff).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept 22 2016. Kurzweilai \u2013 How the properties of quarks and gluons can be used (in principle) to perform computation at the femtometer (10^\u221215 meter) scale. An atom is about 10^\u221210 m in size. The next smallest thing in nature is the nucleus, which is about 100,000 times smaller, i.e., 10^\u221215 m in size \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}