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On 17 Oct 2025 18:03:45 GMT, Stefan Ram wrote:

> Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote or quoted:
>>All 'flash' relies on quantum tunneling for the write and erase cycling
>>of the flash cells.
>>So flash memory is entirely built upon quantum effects and the math
>>thereof.
> 
>   Yeah, but without quantum theory, we couldn't even explain why
>   electrons don't just fall into the nucleus. So basically, the fact
>   that matter is stable at all is because of quantum mechanics, and
>   that's literally what everything about us is built on. And look,
>   quantum field theory, electrodynamics, and general relativity all come
>   from relativity too, so odds are we wouldn't exist the way we do, or
>   have stuff like flash memory, without relativity too.

Matter was stable long before quantum mechanics.