- Computronium
Computronium is a material hypothesized by Norman Margolus and Tommaso Toffoli of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to be used as programmable matter , a substrate for computer modeling of virtually any real object. ref Amato, I. 21 Aug. 1991 . http leitl.org amato.pdf Speculating in Precious Computronium . Science 253 856 857. ref It also refers to a theoretical arrangement of matter that is the best possible form of computing device for that amount of matter. ref http www.singinst.org upload CFAI info glossary.html gloss computronium CFAI glossary computronium ref Computronium in popular culture In the Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy books, by Douglas Adams , the entire Earth is portrayed as programmable matter a computer designed to find the question to the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything . Charles Stross also uses the term in Accelerando book Accelerando . In the Revelation Space books, by Alastair Reynolds , a neutron star called Hades is converted into a massive super computer. The neutronium substance of Hades would therefore be computronium. See also Limits to computation Unobtanium Computron Computon References reflist Category Fictional computers Category Futurology nl Computronium pl Komputronium ru ... more details
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- Limits to computation
and Computation date 20041025030505 ref creating a type of computronium based on femtotechnology which would be faster and denser than computronium based on nanotechnology . It may be possible to use ... more details
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- Matrioshka brain
percentage of the shells would be composed of nanoscale computers see computronium Molecular nanotechnology molecular scale computronium . These computers would be at least partly powered by the energy ... to prevent convection . See also Astroengineering Computronium Megascale engineering Strong ... more details
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- Programmable matter
first David title Kiln People year 2002 ref It is called Computronium in Charles Stross Accelerando ... also Portal Nanotechnology Robotics Computronium References Reflist 2 Cite journal doi 10.1109 MC.2005.198 ... more details
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- Super race
System solar system and convert all the matter they encounter into megacomputer s made of computronium ... more details
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- Accelerando (novel)
of computronium propelled by a Jupiter based laser and a Solar sail lightsail . Amber and 62 others ... more details
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- Dyson spheres in popular culture
of computronium forms a massive matrioshka brain around the sun providing virtual reality virtual ... more details
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- List of Revelation Space characters
Matrix, an apparent neutron star that is actually a solid sphere of computronium , where he effectively becomes immortal as a component of the computronium. Chasm City Tanner Mirabel Tanner Mirabel ... more details
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- Simulated reality
built with computronium using known nanotechnological methods would perform about 10 sup 42 sup calculations ... more details
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