nano
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 11:29 pm
According to Diane Ackerman, ("The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us")
As Dr. G. has pointed out, one of the enunciated purposes of this site is to
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”
