Buckypaper is made from tube-shaped carbon molecules 50,000 times thinner than a human hair. It's really time for a new social contract, in which people who re

Buckypaper is made from tube-shaped carbon molecules 50,000 times thinner than a human hair. It's really time for a new social contract, in which people who read Wired promise that they know what a nanometer is by now, and in which journalists promise that they'll stop describing things in terms of the width of a human hair. Human hairs, for what it's worth, are between 20 and 200 microns in width.