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Simon Winchester | a History of Precision Engineering and the Making of the Modern World

Hidden Forces

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The Evolution of Precision Engineering

There are more transistors operating in the world today than there are leaves on all the trees. They're making 13 trillion transistors a day. The numbers are such that, if you know your Heisenberg and you probably know far better than I do, but you're operating now down at levels which are subatomic. And so things start behaving peculiarly. It's quantum mechanics basically,. As Richard Feynman famously said, no one really understands.

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