McFish, TH6565;
In order to utilize [photons], somehow some sort of "control" are needed.
Don't we use photons [light] every waking moment of our life unless we are blind, while controlling thunderbolts [electrons] is a dangerous, frightening business?
Socrates was ordered to drink a tall cup of hemlock because he said hateful things, such as declaring he was the smartest man in the world because he was the only one who knew he knew nothing.
Today we all know more than that ancient philosopher - or do we?
In my earliest years, we had no electricity. It wasn't poverty at all. There were 5 kids in the family and all had a horse of their own except my brother and I hated that "our" horses were sometimes used to pull a plow or wagon. I would venture no one here can match that magical time when they were very young.
The more we know about things, the less we find we really know. Electrons get less and less substantial the closer we examine them until they seem to disappear in the ether altogether as the scientist I quoted pointed out.
It is somewhat equivalent to Albert Einstein remarking he could never understand radio while we dummies know you just turn the thing on and twist the dial to find the least annoying noise.
What's all that got to do with photons?
Simple really. Terry Turpin's photonic computers are vastly simpler, more powerful and useful than electronic computers utilizing a primitive analog technology that is mostly left in the past by our modern covered wagons compared to Turpin's cool speed demons.
I like progress myself. What is so hard to understand about that even if we had to give up horses?
Best, Terry
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