If the thought of 100,000 perfectly machined carbon nanotubes doesn’t make your eyes water, try reading that passage again!'Nano,'...applies to things one-billionth of a meter long. In nature that's the size of sea spray and smoke. A strand of hair is 80,000 to 100,000 nanometers wide, roomy enough to hold 100,000 perfectly machined carbon nanotubes [!!!] (which are 50 to 100 times stronger than steel at one-sixth the weight)....About 500,000 nanometers would fit in the period at the end of this sentence, with room left over for a rave of microbes and a dictator's heart.
As Dr. G. has pointed out, one of the enunciated purposes of this site is to
and offhand I can't think of a word that better illustrates that criterion.“…tell a story about us and where we come from, how we really think, what we are currently up to”
