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Scientists make new kind of sonic boom, transform energy into light

by Futures Centre, Jan 6
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Scientists Make New Kind of Sonic Boom, Transform Energy Into Light

In Brief Scientists found out that the ‘light barrier’ may be broken. This leads us closer to creating light-based computers and achieve computer speeds a million times faster than its speed today. Present-day computers process information using electrons. And the speed of data transfer is limited by the time it takes for the electrons to travel between the processor and the memory.

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