Anders Sandberg wrote:
> g_luxmast <g_luxmast@loja.net> writes:
>
> > I was thinking if with the theories just known, there is any
> > possibility of teleactuating in nanoscale. For example telemoving
> > individual atoms ...
>
> To my knowledge there are no such ways that work over macroscopic
> distances.
>
> The problem is that to hold an atom, you need some kind of field (most
> likely an electromagnetic field) around it, and since they tend to
> fall off with the square (or more) of the distance the range is rather
> limited. Also, you would need to get information back from the atomic
> cluster you are building, and that would require scattering signals
> from it, which would in turn cause scattering from everything else in
> the vicinity which would make it hard to detect anything over the
> noise.
SInce you are using em fields to manipulate the atoms, you can measure the
impedance / CEMF imposed by the atoms in the field to detect them. No need of
using any more signals than what is already present in the manipulation fields.
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