Archive → March, 2010
Nano Possibilities
Lets be frank. Nanotechnology ai an alien concept to many of us for those of uswho write about it, it takes tons of research just to be able to explain htese concepts in ways you would understand and make it interesting enough we hope for you think about. One of the problems lies in the fact that its hard to wrap our brains around the measures involved because they are so impossibly small. We’re told that a nanometer is a billionth of a meter and to help us understand that it is compared to a red blood cell a hair strand and a pinhead.
How about if i say that a single comma in the preceding sentence measures approximately half a million nanometers? Or that the nail on our pinkie is 10 million nanometers across? Or that shaquille O’neal is 2,160,000,000 nanometers tall, or that the convertion of one nanometer to one inch.