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"fundamental" refers to mathematical symmetry. Your comparison between a passive circuit element and a consumer product strikes me as bizarre.
by hjklklklkl 8y ago
"fundamental" refers to mathematical symmetry. Your comparison between a passive circuit element and a consumer product strikes me as bizarre.
- acqq 8y agoIt's a context that matters. I actually haven't compared "a passive circuit element" to an iPhone. I answered to the following (one level above): "I've saved it in my notebook for forward to folks who go on and on about how revolutionary they are." My claim is that iPhone was "revolutionary" even if "it is not 'fundamental' in any sense." Moreover, just "a passive circuit element" that you used is surely way too simple to be used to describe a memristor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor Also: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7319 https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7319 The way I read it, a resistor is still the only "real" passive circuit element. My view of a "memristor" was always more as a "marketing name." As here: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328535-200-online-spat-over-who-joins-memristor-club/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328535-200-online-s... Which doesn't mean something marketed as them won't be useful. But, as I've also said, up to now, year after year the announcements happened, the time passed... Still, I know nobody would care "if it's fundamental or not" if it would allow us to do the things we couldn't before.