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Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [April 22, 2022]

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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Is It Necessary or Not?

Programmable matter is just carbon and hydrogen and you know oxygen let's say. Most of the things that we care about happen with objects are actually more about the shapes of those objects than mechanical or electrical properties. I don't know what extent that's truly necessary to achieve theThings that we want to achieve it's sort of an interesting question if you have a computer that we kind of now know that you can make a universal computer out of very simple components. Can you tell the story of traveling through a central process in the atomic computer from the electrons perspective interested well so the first thing to explain is electricity is a flow of electrons.

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