The easiest
explanation I can use to explain nanotechnology is to use the
chemical equation H20 and as everybody knows, this is the chemical
equation for water. H20 or in English 2 Hydrogen atoms and 1 oxygen
atom, put them together and there you have a water molecule. Another
example:- Coal and diamond are both made from carbon atoms, the only
difference between the two, is how the carbon atoms are arranged. So
once we have the ability to intelligently manipulate atoms through
the use of what’s known as a
universal assembler, in other words, a very small machine
that allows us to control matter and in anyway we like at the atomic
level. Then this ability should allow
humans to build anything we like and at almost
zero cost,
except for the price of the raw materials and possibly the blue
prints. So pour some carbon atoms into a nano-assembling plant, then
tell the universal assemblers to rearrange those carbon atoms into a
diamond formation and there you have it, as big a diamond as you
like. Everything in the universe is made up of
atoms
or a combination thereof, so when humans finally build a machine
that can reliably manipulate matter at this level, then it should
be possible to build almost anything free of cost.
Nanotechnology is
not even seen as being the ultimate technology anymore, there is now
talk of Pico technology i.e. engineering at the sub atomic scale.
If the human race ever does achieves this technological miracle
cheaply and reliably, then absolutely nothing, would have any value
any more, this would be alchemy for real.
