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Monday, August 06, 2007

Frictionless Nano Machines

There is a *huge* difference between determining that something is possible and actually making it work. The idea behind this is promising, even fascinating. But to achieve “frictionless” machines would require some seriously advanced engineering work. I’ll admit to not knowing all the ins and outs of this technology, but working at the nano level is difficult at best, and scaling machines to those sizes almost never works except on the very elemental levels. Ironically, it’s the simplistic Newtonian physics-based “machines” that work best in a world where quantum mechanics is king. Realistically I’m sure that’s just because we have yet to really perfected our understanding of quantum interactions at that level, but all the more reason why this project won’t be finished any time soon, I’m guessing…

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