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...telephones, photography is going digital. What was once a purely chemical process -- by which crystals of silver halide were exposed to light and turned into visual representations (or analogs) of an actual scene -- is being transformed into an electronic process that turns the same information into strings of 0s...
What will impress telephone users aloft most, however, is the marked improvement in voice quality. The digital system, which represents and transmits information in strings of 0s and 1s that ensure accuracy, also comes equipped with a built-in computerized noise suppressor. Analog systems, which translate sound waves captured by microphones into electronic representations -- or analogs -- amplify the background noise along with the voice, and wax < and wane depending on atmospheric conditions. Using digital technology, the new phones achieve quality equal to what earthlings get calling across town, even with the faintest signal...
...design is all wrong, a relic of 19th century technology that dates back to Marconi and Bell. The future, they say, is digital. To survive in a world dominated by digital chips, digital telephones and digital compact discs, the television of the future must speak in the streams of 0s and 1s that are the language of computers...
...linear collider (SLC), built in a hurry (3 1/2 years) and on the cheap ($115 million), has been struggling since February to measure the Z 0. Despite delays in getting the machine up and running, physicists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, in California, have already produced 120 Z 0s. That is enough to calculate the particle's mass more accurately than ever before. And by the end of the year, when the number of Z 0s produced is expected to reach 2,000, the Stanford scientists think they could have the Z 0's life expectancy pinned down...
...work from the start. The positrons and electrons in the LEP are made to circle repeatedly in opposite directions through the tunnel, with new particles added periodically to the stream. In a given period of time, the LEP is expected to produce hundreds of times as many Z 0s as the Stanford collider does. That gives CERN the best odds of being the first to measure the Z 0's life-span...