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Why would an advanced alien technology use logic gates when we ourselves are starting to outgrow it and move to Quantum based computing?

Originally posted by SLAYER69
There’s that nasty little gap again.
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Notice the jump from theoretical to practical applications?
With further development in the 1960s, Of course they would bring the “Fiber optic like” item to those who are already working that field it only makes since, that they would know more about that type of science.
1954: Basil Hirschowitz visits Hopkins and Kapany in London from the University of Michigan September 1954: American Optical hires Will Hicks to implement develop fiber-optic image scramblers, an idea O'Brien proposed to the Central Intelligence Agency Summer 1955: Kapany completes doctoral thesis on fiber optics under Hopkins, moves to University of Rochester. Summer 1955: Hirschowitz and C. Wilbur Peters hire undergraduate student Larry Curtiss to work on their fiber-optic endoscope project. Summer 1956: Curtiss suggests making glass clad fibers by melting a tube onto a rod of higher-index glass December 8, 1956: Curtiss makes first glass-clad fibers by rod-in-tube method. February 1957: Hirschowitz is first to test fiber-optic endoscope in a patient. 1957: Image scrambler project ends after Hicks tells CIA the code is easy to break. 1958: Hicks, Paul Kiritsy and Chet Thompson leave American Optical to form Mosaic Fabrications in Southbridge, Mass., the first fiber-optics company. 1958: Alec Reeves begins investigating optical communications at Standard Telecommunication Laboratories 1959: Working with Hicks, American Optical draws fibers so fine they transmit only a single mode of light. Elias Snitzer recognizes the fibers as single-mode waveguides. May 16, 1960: Theodore Maiman demonstrates first laser at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu. December 1960: Ali Javan makes first helium-neon laser at Bell Labs, the first laser to emit a steady beam. Circa 1960: George Goubau at Army Electronics Command Laboratory, Bell Telephone Laboratories and Standard Telecommunication Laboratories begin investigating hollow optical waveguides with regularly spaced lenses January 1961: Charles C. Eaglesfield proposes hollow optical pipeline made of reflective pipes May 1961: Elias Snitzer of American Optical publishes theoretical description of single-mode fibers. 1962-63: Alec Reeves at Standard Telecommunications Laboratories in Harlow, UK, commissions a group to study optical waveguide communications under Antoni E. Karbowiak. One system they study is optical fiber. Autumn 1962: Four groups nearly simultaneously make first semiconductor diode lasers, but they operate only pulsed at liquid-nitrogen temperature. Robert N. Hall's group at General Electric is first. 1963: Karbowiak proposes flexible thin-film waveguide. December 1964: Charles K. Kao takes over STL optical communication program when Karbowiak leaves to become chair of electrical engineering at the University of New South Wales. Kao and George Hockham soon abandon Karbowiak's thin-film waveguide in favor of single-mode optical fiber. January 1966: Kao tells Institution of Electrical Engineers in London that fiber loss could be reduced below 20 decibels per kilometer for inter-office communications. Early 1966: F. F. Roberts starts fiber-optic communications research at British Post Office Research Laboratories July 1966: Kao and Hockham publish paper outlining their proposal in the Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. July 1966: John Galt at Bell Labs asks Mort Panish and Izuo Hayashi to figure out why diode lasers have high thresholds at room temperature. September 1966: Alain Werts, a young engineer at CSF in France, publishes proposal similar to Kao's in French-language journal L'Onde Electronique, but CSF does nothing further for lack of funding. 1966: Roberts tells William Shaver, a visitor from the Corning Glass Works, about interest in fiber communications. This leads Robert Maurer to start a small research project on fused-silica fibers.
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty, & leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by zysin5
Do we have all the pieces?
No!
Do we have all the answers?
No!
Are we asking questions and trying to fit what we have at hand together?
Yes!
Originally posted by spitefulgod
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What I was stating is that our computing technology is based on logical gates, even at our current position (some 80 years of having computers) we are starting to outgrow them and are making moves on new systems like quantum computers that use nothing resembling logic gates. If we are to presume these aliens are so advanced they also would have come across the limitations of using digital logic gates and moves on to something else like quantum computing. So if we never came up with silicon chips / transistors and logic gates and we are to assume that these aliens are indeed using advanced technology which will no doubt not be using logic gates and probably not using binary systems..... how did we get a hold of it without coming up with it ourselves?
Originally posted by SLAYER69
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Further more
I think a better description for what Corso was talking about when he mentions micro level circuitry which we all assume meant the micro chip type technology was probably closer to a neural based circuitry similar to what the scientist in the second video meant when he explains what nature has already
1954: Basil Hirschowitz visits Hopkins and Kapany in London from the University of Michigan September 1954: American Optical hires Will Hicks to implement develop fiber-optic image scramblers, an idea O'Brien proposed to the Central Intelligence Agency Summer 1955: Kapany completes doctoral thesis on fiber optics under Hopkins, moves to University of Rochester. Summer 1955: Hirschowitz and C. Wilbur Peters hire undergraduate student Larry Curtiss to work on their fiber-optic endoscope project. Summer 1956: Curtiss suggests making glass clad fibers by melting a tube onto a rod of higher-index glass December 8, 1956: Curtiss makes first glass-clad fibers by rod-in-tube method. February 1957: Hirschowitz is first to test fiber-optic endoscope in a patient. 1957: Image scrambler project ends after Hicks tells CIA the code is easy to break.
Originally posted by spitefulgod
reply to post by SLAYER69
Why would an advanced alien technology use logic gates when we ourselves are starting to outgrow it and move to Quantum based computing?