I’ve taken so many computer science classes and lectures but I still don’t know what it is, exactly, that makes us able to tame lightning and have it produce moving images that we can control.
Like, I know how a transistor works, but not why it works. There’s just a disconnect between what science can actually tell going on between “what electricity is” and “making this little metal loop we can trap the lightning and enslave it to our will.”
I have trouble describing what I want to know that’s missing so it probably is doubly hard to explain that thing I am trying to describe. 😵💫
I think you’re missing what at my university is the course: Solid State Physics, followed by a manufacturing course that may contain a lab.
This covers the physics of transistors and the basics from crystals, how to modify the properties of a crystal, and quantum effects. Then you will know how electricity affects a transistor (through field effect).
Basically if you have two wires that are open, then run a live wire near these two wires, the two wires will close. That’s a very high level overview of a field effect transistor.
I’ve taken so many computer science classes and lectures but I still don’t know what it is, exactly, that makes us able to tame lightning and have it produce moving images that we can control.
Like, I know how a transistor works, but not why it works. There’s just a disconnect between what science can actually tell going on between “what electricity is” and “making this little metal loop we can trap the lightning and enslave it to our will.”
I have trouble describing what I want to know that’s missing so it probably is doubly hard to explain that thing I am trying to describe. 😵💫
I think you’re missing what at my university is the course: Solid State Physics, followed by a manufacturing course that may contain a lab.
This covers the physics of transistors and the basics from crystals, how to modify the properties of a crystal, and quantum effects. Then you will know how electricity affects a transistor (through field effect).
Basically if you have two wires that are open, then run a live wire near these two wires, the two wires will close. That’s a very high level overview of a field effect transistor.
“It doesn’t stop being magic just because you know how it works.” ― Terry Pratchett
Building registers and such helps. It’s very achievable… You can physically build memory or a nand gate on a breadboard
I don’t know how I’d jump the gap from minerals to transistors, but I know how they’re arranged
Sounds like an absolute failire of electrical engineering teachers.