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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:50:30 EST
Subject: Re: CryoNet#20980 nano MNT and on and on and on.

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> From: Henri Kluytmans <>
> Subject: Nanotech / MNT
> 
> I wrote :
> 
> >> it rotates relatively slowly and it uses binding site "pockets" 
> >> (along the rim) to seperate molecules (by Van der Waals force).
> 
>  replied :
> 
> >and it releases them how?...
> 
> A rod in the center of the binding site will protrude when it's 
> part of the rim is located inside the reservoir and will 
> mechanically press the molecule out off the binding site. 
> (Of course this operation requires some energy.)

This is mere sci-fi. It recall me these novels where someone board on an 
interstellar astronef as he/she would use  a car. Fond that in a pulp fiction 
is not very interesting, find a similar idea in something presented as 
science or technology is far worst. I dislike profoundly sci-fi ( many years 
ago I have read a lot of them, so I know about their -lack of- value).  I am 
not religious neither. Here, I find both: sci-fi and religious (mere faith) 
thinking in thechnological disguise.

Your explanation above prove only one thing: you see a nanodevice as a 
classical object, not a quantum one. At that scale, everything is sticky, 
vibrating, soft, not well localized. A rod, hard and rigid is a bad fiction.

You continue on the same track, and on and on and on as said the song. There 
will never anything positive from that. I am a strong advocate of both, 
avdanced science and technology, but as good sci-fi (if it exist), nothing 
must contradict known facts. ...And thinking about nanoscale objects as 
macroscopic classical ones is plainly wrong.

When I speak about  nanoscale devices built on a clay crystal surface, I know 
what material to use, how to handle them, where to buy the tools for that, 
how to find money to finance this. Clearly, we have not the same idea of 
reality :-)

Well, as said Johnny Burnette 40 years ago, keep on dreamin'.

Yvan Bozzonetti.
 

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