Question About Analog and Digital
You know, we have things about analog and discrete/digital in the world, and now there's the new analog and digital computing. One think that the development of analog computing is great, providing it's benefits as defined. Though, there are some more fundamental question to ask; which isn't really related to the computer, but to how the world works.
For our sounds are analog signals, travelling in waves. And there are lots of other waves out there. That's basically analog. You decode the wave, or the "height" of the wave, then map it to something, then that's the something you would like to get out of. Then digital are just zero and ones. These may be a bit confusing, bear with me, because one's confused oneself.
One like to think it this way. If you studied quantum computing, you'd know about wave-particle duality. That is, analog and digital/discrete are actually a result of the same thing, honestly speaking; but of course, it's more complicated than that. The digital part could be think in terms of quantum, where you have energy levels n = 1 as zero, and excited state n = 2 and above as one. And is there quantum wave? One isn't sure. But at least, in the larger scale, there is waves happening.
Then, what if observation causes wave-particle duality to break down, particularly into a particle, or a wave, but not both? Then, does it break down when we read data from an analog/digital computer?
Digital computers get affected by high energy particles, and accidents could happen where it excites a zero into a one, causing your computer to misbehave/malfunction due to memory error, for example, when it hits your RAM. Does that happens also to analog, if analog signals are actually wave-particle duality, and they are made up of quantum particles? If yes, it might change the peak and trough, and it similarly cause memory error, or does it goes unnoticed because the new peak/trough we could decode it somehow?