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From: jnw@mcnc.UUCP (John White)
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Subject: Re: Re: This is serious!
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> Reminds me of some of my weirder brainstorms, like a substance made of a
> crystal of charged black holes (charge opposed gravity). Won't work, of
> course, unless they're black-hole monopoles (:->). But boy talk about a rigid
> structure! Also you could dope it with bigger holes & make a hell of an optical
> computer... run real slo, though, because of the time dilation near the event
> horizons.

I once had an idea where a ferro-electric substance is used as the gate
insulator of a dynamic ram (possibly over a very thin gate oxide).
Then it won't have to be refreshed and it would be non-volital.
Also, a slow, wafer size version could be made and used as a super-fast
hard disk. (bad rows mapped out like bad sectors on a regular hard disk.)
- John N. White