by OxyFemboi » May 4th, 2014, 4:51 am
[quote]KIY wrote:
"Nano" is a scale (a nanometer being smaller than a millimeter, which is smaller than a centimeter, etc.). "Reduction" is reducing something; therefore, what "nano reduction" would be is reducing something on a very small scale. So, if something is reduced a nanometer, it would be smaller by an amount which could be detected with the human eye. You also need some very expensive equipment to see, much less work on, things on a nano-scale (well, maybe not something the size of a nano-light-year, but I have never heard such a term used.)
I may go and check in with the life-extension crowd I used to hang out with on the internet, but I suspect I would actually have heard from them if something like this had occurred, and was able to be proven and replicated. (At least one of them I know has enough money to fund something like this, if enough evidence existed that it was real.)[/quote]
I read a lot of science fiction. The term "nanobots" (robots built to a scale where it makes sense to use nanometers to measure them) has been used in the past few years. It normally refers to a machine/robot made to repair something -- usually cells in a human body -- in the context of life extension, the alteration of human genome to produce new species, etc. Somewhat of the Frankenstein monster writ very small, usually runs amok and the scientist, or daughter/son, etc. needs to save the day. As a plot element, it is usually accomplished by means of handwavium and/or extremely fuzzy science.
If you know someone who can fund this, I can surely volunteer to be a test subject.
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