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Scientists inscribe entire Bible onto pinhead

edesignuk

edesignuk

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And you thought that fellow who managed to fit your entire name -- middle initial included -- onto a grain of rice was hot stuff. Apparently, a team of nanotechnology experts at the Technion institute in Haifa were able to etch some 300,000 words (Hebrew text of the Jewish Bible) onto a minuscule silicon surface "less than half the size of a grain of sugar." The feat was accomplished by "blasting tiny particles called gallium ions at an object that then rebounded, causing an etching affect," and was reportedly done in order to show that copious quantities of data could eventually be stored on bio-molecules and DNA. Oh, and it only took about sixty minutes to finish the job.
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er, that's great fellas :D
 
Poor guy...

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I suppose this beats the angels on a pinhead problem...:p

It's amazing what nano technology will be able to do very soon. Great stuff.
 
At work I used to laser inscribe numbers on the girdle (the thin edge where the top and bottom edges meet) of diamonds. We can go so small you can't see it under a 30x microscope. I can't even imagine how small this has got to be!
 
klymr said:
At work I used to laser inscribe numbers on the girdle (the thin edge where the top and bottom edges meet) of diamonds. We can go so small you can't see it under a 30x microscope. I can't even imagine how small this has got to be!
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Wow, even that is incredibly tiny. That must have taken precision and careful attention to detail to inscribe something so small klymr. :)
 
dmw007 said:
Wow, even that is incredibly tiny. That must have taken precision and careful attention to detail to inscribe something so small klymr. :)
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Well, a computer and a laser do most of the work, but I set it all up and hit the go button. We inscribe at about 100 microns, which you can see without a microscope, but it's just a black streak on the girdle. We have to coat the diamond in a special fluid before inscribing, and once we wash that off you can't tell where the work was done until you place it under a loupe or microscope.
 
klymr said:
Well, a computer and a laser do most of the work, but I set it all up and hit the go button. We inscribe at about 100 microns, which you can see without a microscope, but it's just a black streak on the girdle. We have to coat the diamond in a special fluid before inscribing, and once we wash that off you can't tell where the work was done until you place it under a loupe or microscope.
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Thanks for sharing, that sounds like a pretty amazing process to watch. :)
 
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