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A lot of the fundamentals have actually already been researched and at least in academia, the various ideas have all been out there for quite a few decades now.
by partingshots 8y ago
A lot of the fundamentals have actually already been researched and at least in academia, the various ideas have all been out there for quite a few decades now.
The main impetus has been in getting the funding to kickstart everything, and backing from Alphabet with strong financial support plus an intellectual talent from subsidiaries (Google, X, etc.) to pool from is the killer combination here in my opinion.
- iso1337 8y agoHave any links to share?
- partingshots 8y agohttps://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.4994054 https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.4994054 This is the paper the Malta team uses in their blog (https://blog.x.company/introducing-malta-81bceb559061 https://blog.x.company/introducing-malta-81bceb559061) on explaining how the system works at large. It’s a pretty good summary.
- jabl 8y agoAnd in case anyone is wondering, yes, it's the same Bob Laughlin that won the 1998 Nobel prize in physics for the theory behind the fractional quantum Hall effect.