In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.
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The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.
The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.
Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections.
If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to evaluate the experimental material which may lead him to conclusions about the structure of the atom.
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.
Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed.
Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's just some way of calculating the result of experiments. The Bohr atom was treated that way.
We can track and see the production of single molecules, trace them and see how they assemble into structures.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.