Want to buy a slow computer? No? Well, neither does anyone else! And that fact has generated an enormous problem for the computing industry.

   Generally speaking, the value of a computing system is related to its speed. Every time some outfit comes out with a faster computer, it grabs up a big chunk of the $500 billion per year global computing market.

   Some of today's fastest computers run at 2 gigahertz or 2 billion operations per second. That's fast! But not near fast enough to meet the demand for a natural voice computer interface (computers that talk like in the movies,) accurate weather prediction, and 3D TV.

   So, what's holding up the show? Sluggish electrons! Because electronic signals are delayed by capacitance, inductance, and resistance, it's like they were wading in electronic mud. In order to make them work faster, components have to be made smaller and packed closer together. But doing that greatly aggravates the electronic problems, making the mud deeper and thicker.

   Thus, there exists a physical barrier, a speed limit, that prevents electrons in semiconductors from switching anywhere fast enough. At this point in time, they have nearly reached that physical speed limit, even with atomic-scale manufacturing.

   Such precision requires a gargantuan expense. Intel estimated a few years back that it was going to cost $280 billion for the next generation of chip manufacturing equipment, while producing only a modest gain in computing speed. So, computer companies are in a quandary, their backs aren't just against the wall, they're against the laws of physics. So what is the solution?

   The active components in computer chips are transistors that manipulate electricity to accomplishing the tasks of computing. Photons of light, on-the-other-hand are not affected by reluctance, and you can pack them much closer together.

   In 1989 the CoolScientist invented the world's fastest transistor, the "Photonic Transistor." It has been tested with red light in San Diego switching in 2.1 femtoseconds, or 237,341 faster than 2 gig electronics! And 416,666 times faster using blue light, because it switches light, with light, at the speed of light!

   Consider, how small of an improvement would be needed in order to seize the world market?

   "Photonic Transistors" use holograms (special photographs) to replace computer chips, and laser light to replace electricity. They can be made of glass, plastic, and aluminum foil similar to the holograms on credit cards. Photonic computers would be smaller, faster, and very inexpensive to manufacture… but not using today's computer chip manufacturing equipment. It's not that the old equipment cannot be remodeled so as to produce optical components, the problem is that the process is inefficient and expensive in comparison to photography, which is a highly developed, inexpensive technology.

   So how is it that photonic transistors can operate so rapidly?

   They use quantized optical interference in single-wavelength units, the smallest possible chunks of light. Information is coded into each wavelength using the multi-level language of light, rather than binary.

   Others have ignored the use of light-speed interference because the analog approximation commonly used, called "vector summation" tends to mask its valuable quantum properties. The quantum language of light is quite complex, but thanks to the resonant field theory, we can now untangle its deterministic and complex coding to yield useful outputs in conventional binary form, so we can now hook photonic computers, not only to each other, but to their slower electronic cousins.

   Light is a resonant field. In order to unlock the secrets of photonic computing, one must first understand resonant fields and how they interact with matter and even gravity. Read more about photonic computing and resonant fields at www.coolscience.info. Click on Extraordinary E-books.

   Now that's exciting, isn't it!