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[[File:DiamondoidsAreNotJellyLikeFloppy.jpeg|600px|thumb|right|Molecular dynamics simulations are typically run simulating extremely high speeds thus showing jelly like wobbling which would not at all occur when operated at actually proposed (steady state) speeds many orders of magnitude slower.]]

There are at least two quite misleading artifacts stemming from <br>
very high simulation speeds of ~100m/s to ~1km/s or so <br>
(possibly even exceeding the ~3km/s of the [[unsupported rotating ring speed limit]]) <br>

'''Why simulate so fast:''' <br>
Simulations need to make the time-steps smaller than thermal atomic wiggles. <br>
Reasonably slow nanomachinery speed would mean unreasonably many time-steps to compute. <br>
Thus molecular dynamic simulations of nanomachinery is typically simulated at unreasonably high speeds. <br>

== No, nanoscale diamondoid (and gem based) parts are not floppy and jelly like (at the nanoscale). ==

See also page: [[A better intuition for diamondoid nanomachinery than jelly]]

Misleading jelly like floppiness. <br>
Relative deflections from motions are scale invariant. (See: [[Same relative deflections across scales]]) <br>
Thus intuition for expectable degree of bending and deflections can be 1:1 directly applied from macroscale. <br>

=== Macroscale comparison ===

– proposed speeds are mere few mm/s (intentionally deviating a bit from [[same absolute speeds for smaller machinery]]) and … <br>
– material is solid diamond or some similarly good gemstone. <br>
=> Thus expectable deflections from machine motions are way below even <br>
macroscale metal robots typically operating around m/s speeds. <br>
At the extreme speeds of simulations though even spring steel parts would flex just as much <br>
(actually even more) when slammed together. <br>
If you only ever saw spring steel colliding as rods at hundreds of meters per second <br>
then of course one would be mistaken in thinking that steel behaves like floppy jelly <br>
and would not make good machines.

=== Caveat: Thermal motions ===

This does not apply to thermally excited deformations.<br>
Goes to show how violent these are at the nanoscale. <br>
Structures must be thick enough to not flail around from thermal motions. <br>
[[Accidental heatpump]] dissipation mechanism?

=== Terminology accident ===

The choice of the term [[gem-gum]] for [[gemstone based metamaterial]]s and [[gem-gum technology]] <br>
may be a bit unfortunate potentially corroborating a false intuition here. <br>
The author will keep it, but maybe more consciously use it. <br>

== No, machine motions are not near thermal motions (causing strong coupling and high losses). ==

See: [[Stroboscopic illusion in animations of diamondoid molecular machine elements]] <br>
Actually even though here the effort might be taken to simulate very many timesteps, <br> 
showing just random snapshots instead of doing a proper motion blur leads to its own problems. <br>
{{wikitodo|Find and link a specific work on "multi stage motion blur" for molecular motions}} <br>

== Exceptions ==

Assuming … <br>
– Very sharply pulsed in time and/or … <br>
– just one single nano-device active in an otherwise inactive macroscale heat-conductor <br>
As may occur i some rare exotic situations, <br> 
then in this special case extreme speeds may quite likely actually be possible <br> 
with all the jelly wobbling and massive losses being a real thing to accept. <br>

Trying near km/s operating speeds with macroscale machinery it would just self-destruct as <br>
there is no way to run it in a short enough pulse or run it isolated enough. <br> 
It is "too much for itself" already. <br>
Macroscale physics just has a too small a surface to volume ratio for cooling for that. <br>

== Related == 

* [[Stroboscopic illusion in animations of diamondoid molecular machine elements]]
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* [[Wobbly finger problem]] (and [[Sloppy finger problem]])
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* [[Same relative deflections across scales]]
* [[A better intuition for diamondoid nanomachinery than jelly]]

== External links ==

* [https://x.com/mechadense/status/1775419492916416957 Simulations are Deceptive! (on X-platform)]