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Will said:
Turing Machine is a theoretical computer. As far as I know, an actual Turing Machine does not exist, only machines that are equivalent to it (in the mathematical sense). I guess it would be possible to build one, but it would be highly inefficient. It's called a Turing Machine after Alan Turing, who thought it up while doing cryptography work for Britain in WWII.
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Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon" points this out as well. I'm not saying that what it says is entirely true (though I believe the basics behind the Turing machine as explained in Cryptonomicon are), but it is still a good - no, make that excellent read.
but as for your 1-color lavalamp NA, that's really relaxing.