Re: Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture designer?

On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:29:31 -0000 (UTC), Brett wrote:

Quantum mechanics is high IQ bullshit to make professors look important.

Quantum mechanics is real. Quantum effects are real. Transistors only work
because electrons can “tunnel” through a barrier with higher energy than
they have, which should be classically impossible.

Matter only hangs together because electrons don’t actually orbit nuclei
like planets in a miniature solar system: if they did, they would emit
radiation (“bremsstrahlung radiation”), thereby losing energy and
spiralling into the nucleus until the atom collapses. And that would
happen to every atom in the Universe. Clearly that is not the case.

Even an old-style incandescent light bulb only works because of quantum
effects: the shape of the radiation curve depends only on the temperature
of the radiating body, once it gets sufficiently hot, with little or no
dependence on what material the body is made of. This applies to your
light bulb and also to our Sun and the other stars.

It is true that quantum theory sounds completely crazy when you try to
explain it. But it works, and gives the right answers, that have been
verified repeatedly in countless tests. And in science, that counts for
more than anything.