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Pathways …

Pathways.

Incremental path.

Direct path.

… towards advanced gemstone based productive nanosystems.

★ Generally:
– Spectrum of pathways
– Bootstrapping methods for productive nanosystems
– Bridging the gaps

★ Incremental path
– Central method: Thermally driven self assembly (Self-assembly in general is actually even more broad than that.)
– One big if not biggest blocker: Lack of proper termination control (one option: Algorithmic selfassembly)
– Escaping the window between:
… Positional assembly redundancy blockade &
… Thermal driven selfassembly diffusion speed slowdown blockade
… (Wild ideas: Circumsembly & Squigglesembly)
– Expanding the kinematic loop in order to escape the finger problems
– Hierarchical selfassembly

★ Direct path
– Why force applying mechanosynthesis should work in brief
– Early diamondoid nanosystem pixel (direct path)
… Potential early crystolecular building blocks & Potential early crystolecular mechanisms
– Convergent assembly & Sequence of zones

There were/are some tensions between the sides. For one case see: Pathway controversy
(2026) Not yet meaningfully experimentally accessible: Mixed path

★ Mixed path (Inter technology binding)

Far term target of APM

Form factors of gem-gum factories.

Gemstone metamaterial on chip factory.

… as identified in Nanosystems via applying the methodology of exploratory engineering.

★ Why gemstones?
– Oxidation and the fruit analogy; Atomically precise surface passivation
– Undesired cold-welding vs desired: Seamless covalent welding
– Averting room temperature surface diffusion on metals. (See also: Diffusion)

★ Why (mechanical) metamaterials?
– Gem-gum Superelasticity (wiki-TODO: Add two new graphics on that.)

★ Why cogs-n-gears?
– They get the job done and are not a naive transfer of ideas on closer inspection.

🪤 Trapdoors

★ 🪤 "Diffusion transport is free." (Friction in diffusion transport)
– No, Diffusion transport is not free. One has to pay the energy at toll stations that may have no "small change" to give back.
… Heck cog-n-gear attachment chain trannsport may become even become more efficient than diffusion when advanced and operated sowly:
… See: Dissipation sharing & Exothermy offloading (in how far these tricks work is highly speculative)

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★ 🪤 "Scaling laws make things worse."
– Yes, physics change when going down to the nanoscale, BUT …
– No, not necesarily for the worse for macroscale style cog-n-gear machinery
– The are two critical scaling laws that make things better rather than worse. Both as of 2026 still barely known.
… See below in section: Physical basics

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★ 🪤 "Simulations show that these would not work."
– "No, nanodiamond does not behave like jelly."
– "No, one would not "see" the atomic wiggles when "seeing" the machine motions at proposed operation speeds."
… See: Misleading aspects in animations of diamondoid molecular machine elements
… See: Why MD simulations can't simulate proposed speeds for diamondoid nanomachinery

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★ 🪤 "Scaling laws make things worse"
★ … See: Macroscale style machinery at the nanoscale
★ Two overcompensating scaling laws that make things better:
– Higher throughput of smaller machinery
– Same relative deflections across scales
… See: How macroscale style machinery at the nanoscale outperforms its native scale
★ 🪤 Quantum mechanical effects in nanomechanics are sometimes hugely overestimated
… See: Nanomechanics is barely mechanical quantummechanics

Scale transposed prototyping

Prototyping cog-n-gear mechanisms at the macroscale for the nanoscale staying aware of the physical changes.

★ Personal projects of this wikis author:
– RepRec pick-and-place robots (GemGum)
– ReChain frame systems (ReChain pages)
– MecCirc project
– ReMec projects (umbrella name for the above)
★ Main Inspirations:
– Moses2014
– Ambots

Physical basics

Intuitive feel.

… and building some useful intuition (oversimplification aware).

General physics based intuition / understanding / feel

★ Intuitive feel
★ Intuitively understanding the size of an atom & Magnification theme-park
★ Convenience of size steps of factor 32

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★ Log polar mapping – as for – Distorted visualization methods for convergent assembly
… (Lagrangian mechanics for nanomechanical circuits & Tracing trajectories of component in machine phase)

General nanoscale physics

★ Atomic orbitals (wiki-TODO: d and f orbitals mixing math and geometries)
★ Ligand field theory (Wild idea: Mechanooptical conversion)

APM specific physics

★ Force applying mechanosynthesis
★ (Wearless) friction & energy dissipation:
– Friction in gem-gum technology
– Reciprocative dissipation mechanisms in gem-gum technology
– Superlubricity & Infinitesimal bearing
★ VdW suck-in and suck-on & Comparison of mechanical character of different bonds types
★ Intercrystolecular interactions, Intercrystolecular snapping modes, Intercrystolecular levitation
★ The scaling laws. Two especially overlooked ones already covered in the preceding "trapdoors" section.

Methodological basics & frameworks for thought

★ Exploratory engineering
★ Digital control over reversibly composable units of matter

Far term applications

Products of gem-gum-tec.

Mobile carbon dioxide collector buoy.

Gem-gum suit.

★ Products of gem-gum-tec
★ Concrete example: Gem-gum suit

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★ Likely visual appearance of gem-gum products
★ The look of our environment

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★ ♻️ Recycling and much faster product avaiability via a global microcomponent redistribution system
★ General concept of a new sphere: Mechanosphere – efforts averting a severe Gem-gum waste crisis

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★ Solving biggest civilization problems: Carbon capture buoy scenario

Effects Impacts

World building.
The look of our environment.

Reproduction hexagon.

★ Energy conversions by nature, today & tomorrow
★ Story scenarios
★ The look of our environment & World building
★ The idea of a far future beyond far future gaily colored gem gum goo rainforrest world
– See page: Gem-gum goo
– Reproduction hexagon & Grey goo horror fable

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★ Unnatural chemistry graphic
★ New non scarce materials graphic
★ Ultra fast production by recycling graphic

Side topics

Hardware & software blurring

• Digital control over reversibly composable units of matter
• Materializable programs way beyond programmable materials
• Relations of APM to purely functional programming
• General: Software and programming overview page. Struggles.

Meta

• Goals of this wiki – A lot! … (Didactic approach & Target audience)
• Impressum of this wiki and it's author.
• Stance on AI use for this wiki – (I guess now needed as of 2026.)
• Value in and management of contradictions
• General tips for productive communication
• On the introduction of new terminology in this wiki: Neologism
  In short: As few as possible and when really necessary then pick smartly looking at several concrete aspects.
• The authors struggles with software from the perspective of this wiki.
• Philosophical topics … Embarrassing half inconsistent nonsense. Don't take any of this too seriously.
• Intentionally hidden fun stuff that you'll need to find yourself 😉.
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