Computers and what they are made from?

Question

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT I ONLY HAVE AN IQ OF 127...

Materials in a computer and why & how it works?

Glass comes from --------------- Sand
Plastics come from -------------- Petrolium
Micro chips etc from ------------- Silicon ( SAND )
Copper Wire from ---------------- Copper ( ORE )
Lead solder from ----------------- Lead ( ORE )
Rubber from ----------------------- Sap from the rubber tree
Electric from ----------------------- Magetic fields

and you have a product that performs functions faster than the human brain that invented it...


DIRT, TREE SAP, AND ENERGY FROM A MAGNETIC FIELD.

THIS IS BROKEN DOWN TO IT'S MOST BASIC FORMS I KNOW. BUT IT'S TRUE!!!

HOW DOES THIS CRAZY THING WORK???

HOW DOES IT HAVE THIS ABILITY TO PROCESS AND STORE INFORMATION?

WHEN YOU TURN OFF THE ELECTRIC WHAT KEEPS THE INFORMATION THERE?

IT'S - OIL, DIRT, AND TREE SAP !

SOMEONE HELP ME UNDERSTAND THIS ONE !!!

ps.
I'M STILL STUCK ON HOW A BUMBLE BEE CAN FLY, TOO.

Answer 1

computers can only think in on or off, 1 or 0, yes and no.
they have no maybe, they have no grey areas.
This means they can think faster than us, but not better than us.

your information is kept on your hard drive.

This is a bunch of disks, each disc has little bits of metal on it, a magnet arranges the little bits of metal into patterns. these patterns are your data. when you turn off your computer, the data stays there, arranged on the disks.

you are just meat, but you function well enough.


bumble bees flap their wings REALLY fast, pushing air down, wich in turn pushes them up.
They may look pretty big compared to their wings, but they are very light. so they don't have to lift very much.

Answer 2

First of all, you could break down anything that way. If you kept going, you'd eventually get to "Everything's made out of protons neutrons and electrons. How are there so many different things made from those three things???" There's something to be said for knowing when to stop. I think the only important thing on your list is the microchips. The copper wire and solder only serve as connectors, and most of the rest is cosmetic. The microchips work because each chip contains millions of microscopic components called transistors. I won't explain how they work because it took me a while to undestand, and nothing anyone posts here is going to be as good as a book written by someone who knows what they're talking about. In any case, the transistors essentially form lots of logic gates that perform all of the functions of the computer. The information generally gets stored in the hard drive in the form of a magnetic field, but that's all I know about that. The information remains without power for the same reason you don't need batteries for a magnet. I don't know how bumblebees fly. I assume with their wings.

Answer 3

Computers perform CERTAIN things faster than the human mind. Such as mathematical calculations. However, there are things we take for granted that computers cannot do. If you see a note written by a person with really terrible handwriting, you can still decipher it. For all those writing recognition programs out there, if it's terrible, the computer cannot without help from an operator determine what letters are what. But, again, yes take the time to compute pi to the first 200 digits and the cmoputer can do that faster anyday.

Answer 4

Well, my wife is pretty smart, but she refuses to learn anything she doesn't want to, so here is a version of the explanation I give her when I am fixing her computer...

"There are millions of little fairys with slide rules who live in your monitor..."

Personally, my computer works by "threat of violence". I smash a parfectly good AOL cd or dvd in front of it and tell it that if anything screws up, it's next...

I think the oil, dirt and tree sap is just a myth anyway.

I had a theory about bumblebees and little bitty kites, but I'm still working on that.

Good Luck
Duckie

Answer 5

wat a nerd

this is payback for he little comment you left behind you...... nerd


but other than that great topic great Q


now from me to you

so long ... amigo :P