Thermal motion

(wiki-TODO: Explain why thermal motion does not make mechanosynthesis impossible)
(wiki-TODO: Give general overview about the relevance of thermal motion in the context of APM.)

Reated

• Brownian motion
• The finger problems – in particular: Jittery finger problem and Sloppy finger problem
• Nature does it differently
• Diffusion transport
• Thermally driven assembly
• Thermally driven folding
• The heat-overpowers-gravity size-scale

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• Want an intuitive feel for the speed of atoms?
• Often mistaken as a reason that makes macroscale style machinery at the nanoscale (making up advanced Nanofactories) impossible.

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• Lattice scaled stiffness

External links

• Wikipedia: Thermal_fluctuations
• Wikipedia: Kinetic_theory_of_gases