March 03, 2005

Just an update

Note: The following blog should be treated ONLY as an exercise to demystify the term "nano" and related technology.

Imagine yourself as a student of 11th grade and your math and physics teachers are desperately trying to explain things that are infinitely small, things they are so small that they are trying to make you picture the opposite end of infinite. They coined a word “infinitesimal; which might have been a take-off from a phrase “infinite decimal”. However, for matters of practical physics, scientists are able to only count 9 decimals and hence we are looking at nine decimals, “nano-decimal”. They really invented a new word (just like computer back in 30’s) nano-tech.

Most scientists back in 80’s have toyed and also made some progress with the theory of strings; however certain advancements made at this nano-scale has been turning the world of manufacturing (to begin with) upside down and brought to us a plethora of goods like cheaper and denser hard disks, fasters chips and many more. Couple to these are the efforts to reduce the power consumption of many automatic devices (they can be anything right from a valve that controls huge turbines, to the chips that are buried deep down inside your car’s electronic control board) – we are seeing exciting changes all around us, but this is happening at “small” levels (literally), we are being completely oblivious of all.

I see a few websites that already provide information like “publications”, “research” etc. I plan to do that all, but some more. I would like to give my own inputs in this blog and try to make it as original as possible.

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