Re: Sub-Nano Assemblers

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (FallingSky) wrote:
> 
> Could anybody out there give me the parameters of a machine (not
> unlike proposed nano-assemblers) which is able to construct artifacts
> much, much smaller than what is sought by researchers into
> nanotechnology.  Where I'm looking is this:
> 
>     Micro-assemblers:  building artifacts out of materials
>     Nano-assemblers:  building materials out of molecules
>     Pico-assemblers:  building molecules out of atoms
>     Femto-assemblers:  building atoms out of subatomic particles
>     Atto-assemblers:  building subatomic particles out of quarks and
> leptons
>     Zepto-assemblers:  building quarks and leptons out of
> superstrings, twistors, etc.

"Assemblers" for anything below ~1 Angstrom is off-topic for sci.nanotech 
and exceedingly unlikely to be of applicable interest to humans for many 
years, if ever. Maybe if you were a living creature of some kind on (or 
in) a neutron star there might be reason to talk of assembling things with 
nuclei, but the required environment, energy, and the nature of the nuclear 
forces conspire in such a way as to quickly terminate any possible 
discussion.

(Because a sub-nano discussion would be off-topic for sci.nanotech, I've 
set the followup-to header to sci.physics.)