As we have a three day weekend courtesy of the snow (schools, tube, buses all closed and here in the City I have almost a foot of snow on my terrace) it’s an opportunity to catch up with a few things that might stave off of the early onset of cabin fever. One of my favourite articles over the last …
“The diamondoid mechanosynthesis approach is only in the very early stages of computer simulation”
I’m always staggered by the progress being made in nanoscience, with tens of billions of dollars of global funding our understanding of the nanoscale is progressing in leaps and bounds. Perhaps more roadkill than tortoise to nanoscience’s hare is diamondoid mechanosynthesis, beloved of the Drexlerians, which doesn’t seem to have made any progress whatsoever, and increasingly resembles a cross between …