COMPLETE UNIVERSE - DYNAMIC SPACE - WAVE PHENOMENA

Fluctuations in faster rates and language of nature

We modern people can understand from the revolution of digital technology better how important the speed and the repeated change in nature's foundations is, how nature is smart and creative, and how it appears in mathematical proportions. For many centuries, no efficient construction had evolved to perform fast and difficult calculations. In order to build a computer with the technical capabilities as we know it today, it was necessary that the electronic technology had been developed. Only after the manufacture of the electronic valves in the 20th century began the successful efforts and of course these first fabrications did not resemble the later computers with their tiny components. The language in which calculations are performed quickly and results are stored could not be the flow of a liquid or moving mechanical parts. Operations with large numbers and the making of many synchronized calculations need speed and agility with minimum inertia. Therefore, a large number of pieces would be needed to move and to be adjusted like pieces of jigsaw, while their movements had to be performed quickly by hand or automatically by the force of (slow) springs or the (slow) movement of some fluid. These difficulties (namely the number of mechanical parts and the speed of movements and alternations) were theoretically overcome by the application of electricity.

The electric current could change quickly and could be used as a language consisting of mo­ments (pulses) when electricity flows and moments when the flow is interrupted. This is similar to the Morse code, which was used for telecommunications. The sounds of this code were generated by the touch of a button. The electric current passed instantly and the sound was brief as well. This was all accomplished by a brief press of a key. By pressing the key for a longer period of time the current flowed for longer and the sound was also prolonged. This was the principle of operation. Morse devised a combination of short and prolonged sounds for each letter of the alphabet, for numbers, punctuation, and other signs of expression. The language of computers is made of such electrical pulses. That is, moments when a minimum amount of current passes and moments when this flow is interrupted. These moments of closing - opening (in circuit with the electric flow) are represented by numbers 1 and 0. The language of digital technology consists of sequences of 0 and 1. Each digit of such a sequence is called a bit and 8 bits make a byte. By the codification of the 8 bits can we represent 256 (= 28) different characters as a result of 256 different combinations of 0 and 1. So, the one, who built an electrical circuit, which allowed the electricity to pass and not to pass quickly, made a leap for the invention of computers without knowing it! The next and inevitable leap was to prepare a complete language with zeros and aces (software, as this was named later), which would correspond to commands and to the language we use to talk and write, just as it was more simply done with the Morse code.

The construction of the electronic valves allowed for the first time fluctuations in electricity to be made at rates of thousands of times per second. Many electronic valves could send and receive electrical pulses amongst them and one valve puts the other in operation or shuts down for a certain amount of time. Storing these combinations of electrical pulses was another difficult problem for the computer development. In a few decades and especially since the construction of the transistors, it had been possible to fluctuate the electric current several billions times per second. The function that the electric current becomes a short and controlled pulse was ensured by the low volume and weight, low voltages and less heat loss of the transistor. Thousands of transistors together could quickly open and close as switches and exchange electric pulses. What was needed for the development of computers was the coding of the pulses, as we have explained above in a simplified manner. It was necessary to combine the pulse of the current (turning on and off in high frequencies) with a number of many pulses for each letter of the language or for a whole word. For many centuries, it hardly any step could be made for the reason we mentioned in a simplified manner: It was necessary to combine a large number of "signs" in a variety of ways, at the highest speed and in small space. This complex and fast operation could not be done with gears and springs. And nature with the variety of its structural elements and the fastest rhythms in their microscopic structure seems to know it ... better than man.