From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Wed Feb 02 2000 - 20:28:00 MST
Alexander McLin writes:
> Amazing! I was worried about how they would be able to transmit
information and control the nanobots and structures. Now we may have a
way of doing it, it seems more effective than using chemicals, light
waves, and ascoutics to control the nanostructures.
I hate to burst your bubble, but this is an effect requiring magic
geometry. It might be good (perhaps excellent) for switching (where a
state has to influence other state nearby, quickly (intuitively,
slightly tweaking the wavefunction nearby an electron outlet in
ballistic circuits should have a large impact)), but this is no way to
communicate things over noticeable distances.
If you don't have an agent swarm, good old packet switched network
over a bus grid will do just fine. Gradients, baton estafette,
acoustics/photonics don't make much sense there.
Er, and could you kindly switch off the HTML default in your browser?
(And maybe also check the box with 72 chars/line). It is quite
annoying otherwise.
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> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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> style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
> <A href="mailto:rebrown@ucsd.edu" title=rebrown@ucsd.edu>Evan Brown</A> </DIV>
> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
> href="mailto:extropians@extropy.com"
> title=extropians@extropy.com>extropians@extropy.com</A> </DIV>
> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, February 02, 2000 6:49
> PM</DIV>
> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> EUREKA et al: IBM scientists
> discover nanotech communication method</DIV>
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> <DIV> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT size=2><A
> href="http://www.eurekalert.com/releases/ibm-scn020200.html">http://www.eurekalert.com/releases/ibm-scn020200.html></FONT></DIV>
> <DIV> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT size=2>Old-fashioned magic just doesn't seem so impressive these
> days....</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT size=2>On a somewhat different note, I'm curious (quantum
> incompetent that I am) what potential quantum tunneling may have in
> nanocomm. Web search so far found a tunneling based transistor <A
> href="http://www.aip.org/physnews/graphics/html/tunnel.htm">http://www.aip.org/physnews/graphics/html/tunnel.htm>,
> but nothing regarding nanocomm. Freitas have anything to say about this?
> This even a conceivable use? Am I barking up the wrong quantum
> effect?</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT size=2>-Evan-</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT size=2>Amazing! I was worried about how they would be able to
> transmit information and control the nanobots and structures. Now we may have
> a way of doing it, it seems more effective than using chemicals, light waves,
> and ascoutics to control the
> nanostructures.<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>
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