On 03/03/2018 23:29, mechanic wrote:
On Sat, 3 Mar 2018 13:03:09 +0000, dennis@home wrote:

They haven't changed the laws of physics for a while.

The whole understanding of the physics of elementary particles has
changed a few times in the last decades. Quantum mechanics and
cosmology are other active fields currently. Textbooks and teaching
ideas are way behind what students can see for themselves on Horizon
programmes, which must be a nightmare for teachers.

Computers haven't really changed much in the last few decades either.

Now that's just silly. Both for hardware and software.


I used to design computers, first using TTL then bit slice then micros,
the're still the same.
Manufacturing has changed, computers haven't, they still work in the
same way.

Maybe quantum computers will mean a change in how computers work.