![]() ![]() without losing any energy in the form of heat), and the Square-Cube Law states that many small machines have a lot more surface area through which heat can leak out as opposed to one big machine. The basic laws of thermodynamics state that there is no machine that can convert energy into work with 100% efficiency (I.E. For starters, without some source of energy, they will just sit there being molecules, or at best work veeeery slowly using ambient energy. Real-life physics, however, puts constraints on what nanomachines can accomplish. Nanomachines can be depicted as masses of cloud/liquid in external "colonies", Voluntary Shapeshifting Blobs, or syringes of stuff to be injected into humans and have fantastic results, usually in the form of superpowers, but sometimes in the form of a Forced Transformation, Unwilling Roboticisation or Harmful Healing. Writers are not expected to show the nanomachines doing whatever it is that they do, all they have to do are the results. Nanomachines, "nanites" or "nanobots" are a writer's best friend. More often, fiction delights in taking nanotech way, way beyond the plausible. Real-life nanomachine research is being done in areas such as medicine, manufacturing, and chemical engineering. Once you have a vast mass of these robots, all ready to accept orders and shuffle stuff around at the molecular level, they can potentially do anything nature does and much, much more. After all, if one could make a tiny robot at the nanometer scale note A hydrogen atom is about 0.1 nanometers across, visible light has a wavelength of 400-800 nanometers and a human hair is about 100,000 nanometers wide and that little robot created another, and those two robots made four. Nanotech supplies a myriad of exciting powers with a satisfying patina of plausibility.Īs a result, Nanobots lead to interesting plots and settings even in otherwise hard science fiction. Nano is the latest Sci Fi Name Buzzword it is the new pseudo-Greek for phlebotinum. ![]() Nanotechnology has become an all-purpose magic substitute for soft science fiction and sci-fi-flavored fantasy. Nanotechnology is technology on a scale of 1-100 nanometers (1 nanometer being one billionth of a meter). In Latin, nanus means "dwarf." In science, the prefix nano- means "one billionth" of something. Corazon Santiago, Planet: A Survivalist's Guide "The Nanofactory," Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri ![]()
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