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Symbol Super Colliders

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Collision-Based Computing

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We argue that lattice-gas computers are the conceptual offspring of colliding-beams particle accelerators. Instead of streams of physical particles, streams of symbolic tokens are run through one another in a cross-current fashion, intersecting at pre-arranged places and times. In this way, an astronomical number of tokens continually collide and interact in a disciplined choreography.

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  1. Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, BS16 1QY, UK

    Andrew Adamatzky

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Toffoli, T. (2002). Symbol Super Colliders. In: Adamatzky, A. (eds) Collision-Based Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0129-1_1

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