One reason why there's a limit on how small an electronic device can be
Is that if you make it too small, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle says that the electrons can jump from one part of the circuit to another without crossing the intervening space.
( Hdjejjwsjdjjf LOOK, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 18:05, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

that is some fucked up shit

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 18:08, Reply)

That should be my degree title
BSc in Fucked Up Shit.
( Hdjejjwsjdjjf LOOK, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 18:12, Reply)

Are you saying electrons can telepport?

( girlinthehole, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 18:47, Reply)

I think it's something to do with the fact that
subatomic particles don't really exist in a place so much as have the possibility to exist in many places in a kind of probability wave.

That whole thing with neutinos going FTL might be like teleporting, though, in the sense that during their trip it's being hypothesised that they took a shortcut through the 4th spacial dimension :o
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 18:51, Reply)

Que?

( girlinthehole, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 18:53, Reply)

which bit?

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 18:53, Reply)

All of it.

( girlinthehole, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 18:54, Reply)

I think it means
SCIENCE IS ACE!

as long as you don't have to do the fiddly bits like working out the maths and what is means in real life
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 18:57, Reply)

I think he's talking about the tunneling effect
which is a quantum mechanical effect. It means that electrons can pass through barriers which classically they shouldn't be able to.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 19:21, Reply)