X-Message-Number: 1201 Newsgroups: sci.cryonics From: (Darran Edmundson) Subject: Molecular manipulation with the STM Message-ID: <> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 19:28:02 GMT Last friday I had the pleasure of attending a seminar by Dr. Don Eigler of IBM's Alamaden Research Center on "Molecular Manipulation with the Scanning Tunnelling Microscope" here at Simon Fraser University. It was utterly fascinating to see images of individual xenon atoms being manipulated on a surface of platinum. As a physicist, Dr. Eigler is chiefly interested in the STM as a tool for doing physics, however, he is certainly aware of the technological implications of his work. (He began and ended with quotes from Richard Feynman's 1959 talk "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom.") The success of cryonics will depend on the ability to control individual atoms (see Drexler's book "Engines of Creation") in order to repair, among other things, the damage done to the body by the freezing process. -- Darran Edmundson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=1201