26 January 2008 - electrons and holes

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It Is Essential to Remain Positive

Computation nowadays is done with electrons and holes. An electron is negative, and a hole is the lack of an electron, so it is also negative. This points up the importance of creating antimatter, so that we can compute with positrons and antiholes.

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