Friday, February 10, 2006

Nano World

"Little knowledge estranges man from God, science brings him back"
~Sir Francis Bacon

What is nano-world? Everything is nano now, nano-materials and nano-technology. Many are wondering what is it? Most important is it's effect on us. It is simply a world dealing with anything, matter and anti-matter that is by the scale 1/1,000,000,000 of 1m (meter). Can you imagine such situation?

Everything, which is exist now is reduced to such a size, yet assuming they are still functioning through some might be affected by such an effect of miniaturization. Imagine, something, which you are able to see suddenly, vanishes into the thin air. It becomes invisible. Or simply a ghost or a spirit, still exist but no longer seen or felt. A real world transforms into a relatively virtual world.

Do you realize that whatever we see now are those you are able to see with your naked eyes or thise you see with something capable of capturing and magnifying to your scale. For example, a magnifying glass magnifies an object up to 10x while a tunneling microscope to 1,000,000,000x. What about those, which are smaller? They exist and functional yet still unknown because we are unable to detect or we do not have the capability of doing so. Does it mean they do not exist? Is this the way the saying "seeing is believing"?

As time goes by and with better understanding, innovation and so forth, a day will come when things will be different. Many so called myth and infinite might be real and finite. The meaning of infinitely small is no longer confined to infinity, but beyond our mean or imagination now. Actually such a concept is nothing new. Suddenly the so-called theories will no longer be, even contradicts. However, the truth is still the same, but the current truth might not be so if they are not the truth yet. It is our obligation to seek the truth, albeit it might hurt.

The world of materials; organic, inorganic, naturally occuring or man-made will be different, but most importantly they must be smart, intelligent, more functional than now because we are able to understand and control since their begining or when they are at the smallest stage. Imagine a situation where you are able to replace your aging organs, able to grow your desirable fruits or simply able to fulfill your current wishful dreams.

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