Feynman path
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The "Feynman path" is referring to a naive but immediately self suggesting approach to scale down manufacturing machinery containing saw blades and drills to the nanoscale. And that by making smaller machinery with bigger machinery and then use that smaller machinery to make even smaller machinery. Practically this is not possible because of:
- Saw blades and drills quickly becoming infeasible for smaller scales.
- The multi material and semi manual complexity of our current day (and back then too) macroscale technology.
Thhis approach has Feynman's name because this is how he formulated the then brand new idea of "nanotechnology"
in his famous talk "There is plenty of room at the bottom".
Richard Feynman was a brilliant as physicist and educator.
Had he conducted more serious investigations he surely would have ended up with similar results to what is in the book Nanosystems.
(wiki-TODO: Put a citation of Richard Feynman's exact words here. It's in (part 1) of the external links below.)
External links
- Foresight Institute: Feynman Path to Nanotechnology
- Feynman’s Path to Nanotech (part1) (part2) (part 3) (part 4) (part 5) (part 6) (part 7) (part 8) (part 9) (part 10)
