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this is intriguing. since the links and rotary joints will be susceptible to friction I wonder if you could pump oil through the machine to remove any shavings
by whitten 9y ago
this is intriguing. since the links and rotary joints will be susceptible to friction I wonder if you could pump oil through the machine to remove any shavings that might be created.
I wonder if the fact that the gates etc. are in a single plane could be used to make it function more effectively as well.
It certainly is using a different mechanical approach than the Differential Machine.
- godelmachine 9y agoI was going to submit the same paper, and had the same question, along with another one. The abstract says that the system can be scaled down to molecular level, much like electronics has been scaled to sub mm or nm level. But at the sub nanometer level, we face quantum effects which are hard to overcome. Would mechanical based computing systems give us the same headache as we try to scale them further down?
- sp332 9y agoI think we know how to do links and rotary joints at that scale, and that's all you need for these machines.
- mhb 9y agoquantum effects which are hard to overcome This is discussed thoroughly in Nanosystems (Table of Contents - http://e-drexler.com/d/06/00/Nanosystems/toc.html http://e-drexler.com/d/06/00/Nanosystems/toc.html)
- fernly 9y agoThey make the point that rotary joints are for conceptual illustration, and it could equally use hinge or flex joints. This would be relevant at the nano scale, > In particular, a molecular version of this architecture could use stiff covalently-bonded nanotubes for the links and single bonds for the joints. In that case joint friction would not be a consideration, or at least I would imagine things like electrostatic or molecular bonding forces would be larger.