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Electricity is also a wave. The wires are essentially waveguides for particles/waves traveling at near luminal speeds. So in theory anything done with electricity could be replicated using other waves, but to make it faster you would need waves that travel faster than electrons through a wire. Photons through a vacuum might be marginally faster, but pressure waves though a fluid would not.

If bitflips are a problem in a modern chip, imagine the number of problems if your computer ran on gravity waves. The background hum of billions of star collisions cannot be blocked out with grounded tinfoil. There is no concept of a faraday cage for gravity waves.

parent sandworm101 4 years ago

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