Electrons vs Photons - Computation vs Communication | Jeffrey Shainline and Lex Fridman

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Jeffrey Shainline is a physicist at NIST working on. Note: Opinions expressed by Jeff do not represent NIST.

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[lusher]

That was a silly answer to a silly question. If you didn’t already understand why we use electrons to make computations, you don’t understand it any better after watching this clip. Both seem more interested in sounding smart than bringing understanding to the subject.

[IrshadAhmed]

As far as I know, only a certain number of electrons can occupy a certain space, like in the s orbital only two electrons can remain and if more than two are crammed then things can become unimaginable. However, with photons by increasing the number of photons occupying a certain space you can increase the intensity of light that is emitted. So I don't understand how we can cram a lot of electrons in one place.

[Chillingworth]

Why’d it end there I was waiting to hear about brain mutexes

[GBuckne]

..as far as the electrons, if neurons which can emit waves, that come from intrinsic electrons, then we need to know more about how information is coherent in a wave....as in Elon Musk's research that places electrodes (near) the neuron non attached, to receive the wave...our brains are interacting in very subtle ways one to another...

[_basedgeo]

Lex Fridman is the man… remember to buy Cardano

[danielraymadden]

This channel will dumb down your phone computer and YouTube account...you need to scrub it off all your devices and accounts...

[Hugging_Cactus]

love the channel. can’t stand this dude you keep bringing on. he is like a fake physicists, who read a book once. he seems to know absolutely nothing special. he is repeating what he read. i can do that. he brings nothing to your channel.