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How is this a quantum effect? Clocks can be noisy, so if your board isn't designed to keep everything isolated properly, you'll pick up noise all over the plac
by JonFish85 13y ago
How is this a quantum effect? Clocks can be noisy, so if your board isn't designed to keep everything isolated properly, you'll pick up noise all over the place. It's an electromagnetic effect, sure, but a quantum effect?
- sz4kerto 13y agoIt's not. What he means is that he's not a hardware guy, and this problem was caused something even beyond the problems what software people normally call 'hardware issues'.
- adwf 13y agoElectromagnetism and quantum physics have quite a bit to do with one another. Einstein won his Nobel on that one ;)
- bobz 13y agoTechnically, quantum refers to physics at the atomic / subatomic scale, and not necessarily to the spooky effects like particle wave duality and such that we usually attribute to the term. So, I believe this would be an "effect on the quantum level," even if it can be understood through the lens of more traditional electromagnetic physics as well.
- beambot 13y agoCalling an electrical noise / timing bug "quantum mechanics" is hyperbole. Otherwise, every EE that touches hardware is a quantum physicist (they're not). EDIT: Not trying to diminish the OPs impressive feat of debugging though. Hardware errors can be beastly to diagnose. When wire-wrapping an 8086 computer, I used a spool of wire with occasional (random) breaks that would intermittently open. Worst. Bugs. Ever.
- wglb 13y agoHe probably should have said "quantization error".