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[–] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Confidently incorrect about how fragile some circuits can be. Simple functionality is a convenient illusion we've beaten into various squiggles of metal. Electricity is secretly also a radio and a magnet, and even in wires it can't know there's nothing at the end until it gets there. Sometimes things just happen.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    They're fabricating micrometer components with a 90 nm process. That's pretty well in the classical regime. If they're seeing substantial tunneling at that scale it would be rather noteworthy to say the least.

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