Monday, May 17, 2004

Harmonic logic

Along the lines with the first post below, I had another idea -- this one's easier to play with. The idea is to construct harmonic logic systems that oscillate between two or more logical states. You can take, for instance, the output of a NOT gate and feed it back into itself. If you feed it a 0, it spits out a 1, which then goes back through and becomes a 0, etc. Anyway, when you extend the idea to include classical "oscillator" behaviour (and, perhaps, quantum system behaviour) things could get interesting (i.e., how does the concept of "resonance" apply to a system of logic gates?). More fun is to be had if we include reversible logic, and maybe even mix the two. This one is a bit easier to play with than the quantum stuff I mentioned in the post below; the concepts of classical and reversible logic are much more accessible than those of classical and quantum wave dynamics. Anyway, more food for thought.

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