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Do you realize you can determine this for yourself, right now? By just taking standard equations found in textbooks, plugging in some numbers, and realizing th
by MichaelZuo 3y ago
Do you realize you can determine this for yourself, right now?
By just taking standard equations found in textbooks, plugging in some numbers, and realizing that things such as Ideal Gas Law don't hold at such scales.
You can even derive the equations for yourself to confirm your not being misled by the textbooks, but that takes more skill and knowledge then is likely feasible to acquire without advanced study.
- at_a_remove 3y agoFortunately, I have a physics degree so I am quite sure I am not being misled by the textbooks. We will face different challenges at different scales, of course, but even as recently as 2016, researchers using a scanning tunneling microscope crafted a 8,192 bit message using less than ten thousand atoms. So, no, I see absolutely no reason why we couldn't have robots within an order of magnitude of the human cell -- we have bacteria which are much much smaller capable of a variety of functions as well as reproducing themselves You might look into Feynman's "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom."
- MichaelZuo 3y agoAre you getting confused as to the topic? Clearly cell-like robots are 100% possible at very small scales, there’s no one debating you on this.