Boltzmann’s Tyranny and Quantum Tunneling: The End of Computing?

n this video we’ll learn about how quantum mechanics and Stefan Boltzmann are conspiring to kill viral cat videos!... or something like that. Technical Caveat #1: I’m intentionally ignoring an entire side of the story. In reality, there are also electrons in the drain, and because it is a fundamental aspect of quantum mechanics that two electrons can’t share the same state, these electrons “block” electrons from crossing the channel if no voltage is applied. In general, the role of this “blocking” is very important to understand to get a complete picture of what’s happening here, but I chose to ignore it to make the specific points I was trying to emphasize conceptually clearer. Technical Caveat #2: In general, these dates are quite soft. I’m not trying to be a historian, and am being pretty generous in some rounding and such. Technical Caveat #3: In this whole section of the video, I’m trying to emphasize the direct parallel between classical frustrated total