Quantum Leap Discoveries

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But the one paper you _really_ need is not available.

bob

LOL!! Been there.....many times, actually.

--Alex

 

[Charles Turner]

Oops, well the essence of my point was correct.


"N10" <limbic_lesion@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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"Charles Turner" <charles.turner@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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Thanks guys,

I think you've confirmed what I thought, i.e. there's nothing of a
quantum leap that's been invented / discovered in the last few decades.

From my point of view I think the next quantum breakthrough, as several
of you have touched upon, will be with biotechnology. A string of only
four amino acids (not too complicated) , i.e. DNA can be "launched" into
a electro-chemical environment to produce, without intervention and even
at the most simplest level, the most spectacular, complex and
breathtaking organisms. I may be wrong, but I suspect the string of code
in many computer programs is in fact more complex, but the outcome far
less impressive; We must have got something wrong!

So I think our understanding of how something so apparently simple as a
string of 4 amino acids in a nucleus of a fairly simple cellular
structure can produce something billions of time more complex than we can
construct will be the next quantum jump. Either that or a continuous
supply of Timothy Taylor Landlord Bitter for free!

Regards,


Charlie Boy



HI

To politely correct you and not to take away from your coments the
following is important.

"A string of only four amino acids (not too complicated) , i.e. DNA "

This latter statement is incorrect as DNA is primaly composed of
sequences of purines and pyrimidine bases ( not amino acids).

There are two major purines and two major pyrimidines plus a rarer few
varients of each.

It is the linear sequence of bases in triplet sub sequences which form
the genetic code . Its is the genetic code which determines the primary
structure of proteins ( ie amino acid sequence).

Hope this clarifies things for yourself and others.

I also agree the ability to form recombinat DNA in vitro is a massive
quantum leap

best N10




"Charles Turner" <charles.turner@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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Guys,



It was Sir Clive Sinclair who said something like "the World Economy
needs some new discoveries, all current manufacturing etc. is based on
old discoveries." He was referring to Automotive, Telephony, Television
etc, which are of course very old ideas, some 100+ years.



My background is electronics and the really Quantum Leap discovery was
the semiconductor device around 50 years ago. All of the current "new
hi-tech" devices such as digital TV and mobile phones, PC's, Flat
Screens etc. are a result of that. More significantly before the
discovery of the semiconductor the mathematics etc. associated with, for
example digital communications, were fully understood, it was just that
the computing power was not available to implement the ideas.



So, as far as electronics is concerned there has been no subsequent
"Quantum Leap Discovery" (I will, however, stand to be corrected and
enlightened).



The big question:-



Are there any discoveries in any other disciplines that rival that of
the semiconductor and would anyone like to predict the next Quantum
Leap.



Best Regards







Charles

 

In article <1156370958.173950.321210@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
"PD" <TheDraperFamily@gmail.com> wrote:

Charles Turner wrote:
Guys,



It was Sir Clive Sinclair who said something like "the World Economy needs
some new discoveries, all current manufacturing etc. is based on old
discoveries." He was referring to Automotive, Telephony, Television etc,
which are of course very old ideas, some 100+ years.



My background is electronics and the really Quantum Leap discovery was the
semiconductor device around 50 years ago. All of the current "new hi-tech"
devices such as digital TV and mobile phones, PC's, Flat Screens etc. are a
result of that. More significantly before the discovery of the
semiconductor
the mathematics etc. associated with, for example digital communications,
were fully understood, it was just that the computing power was not
available to implement the ideas.



So, as far as electronics is concerned there has been no subsequent
"Quantum
Leap Discovery" (I will, however, stand to be corrected and enlightened).



The big question:-



Are there any discoveries in any other disciplines that rival that of the
semiconductor and would anyone like to predict the next Quantum Leap.



1. Since you mention quantum.... quantum entanglement (leading to
quantum computing as the first trial balloon)

2. Genetic manipulation

3. Not really a discovery, but a tool: the world wide web. Let me make
a brief case:
a) world-wide commerce at many lower levels than previously possible

This doesn't ship stuff nor manufacture it.

b) open-source and community-driven development

That is still a test case.

c) long-tail economics

I have no idea what a long-tail is.

d) international scientific collaboration

There already was. If anything, this may detract from it.

e) the continued dispersal of on-demand information -- we progressed
from monks in abbeys to public libraries to Google

Going to Google is a step backwards...five steps backwards...make
that a million steps backwards. The search service is too
specific.

/BAH

PD

 

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jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:

In article <1156370958.173950.321210@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
"PD" <TheDraperFamily@gmail.com> wrote:
e) the continued dispersal of on-demand information -- we progressed
from monks in abbeys to public libraries to Google

Going to Google is a step backwards...five steps backwards...make
that a million steps backwards. The search service is too
specific.

Then replace the word "Google" above with "Wikipedia".
--
Shaun.