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A\" data-image=\"http:\/\/images.quickblogcast.com\/52795-47286\/Fantasticvoyage.jpg?a=55\" data-button=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/images\/social_share_button.png\" alt=\"Share\" class=\"linksalpha_image\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/scripts\/loader_iconbox.js?v=2.4\"><\/script><\/span><\/div><p><P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\" align=center><FONT size=2 face=Verdana><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12px\"><\/FONT><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12px\"><\/FONT><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12px\"><\/FONT><IMG style=\"BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px solid; BORDER-LEFT: 0px solid; WIDTH: 250px; HEIGHT: 188px; BORDER-TOP: 0px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px solid\" src=\"http:\/\/images.quickblogcast.com\/52795-47286\/Fantasticvoyage.jpg?a=55\"><BR><\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>One of the recurrent themes in the \u201cclassic\u201d science fiction from the so-called Golden Age of the 1950s is miniaturization \u2013 shrinking a machine so small that it and its occupants experience the sub-microscopic universe as if it were another universe like ours, but at a different scale.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>A good example is&nbsp;<A style=\"COLOR: purple\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asimovonline.com\/\" target=_blank>Isaac Asimov<\/A>\u2019s&nbsp;<I><A style=\"COLOR: purple\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?path=ASIN\/0553275720&amp;link_code=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=thedeadhand-20&amp;creative=9325\" target=_blank>Fantastic Voyage<\/A><\/I>. In this novelization of&nbsp;<A style=\"COLOR: purple\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0003198\/\" target=_blank>Jerome Bixby<\/A>\u2019s original story that was adapted for film by<A style=\"COLOR: purple\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0241949\/\" target=_blank>David Duncan<\/A>, Asimov\u2019s heroes and their small submarine are shrunk until they can be injected into a human patient where they cruise around, encountering the body\u2019s defense mechanisms that perceive the miniaturized sub and its passengers as an invading organism, and finally save the patient\u2019s life.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana><A style=\"COLOR: purple\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0558577\/\" target=_blank>Richard Matheson<\/A>\u2019s&nbsp;<I><A style=\"COLOR: purple\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0050539\/\" target=_blank>Incredible Shrinking Man<\/A><\/I>&nbsp;is another fine example from this genre. Hero Scott Carey discovers that he is shrinking (for reasons that don\u2019t matter here), encountering perils on his smallward journey. Finally, he emerges into another ultraminiature universe that mirrors our own.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>It\u2019s great stuff, and&nbsp;<I><A style=\"COLOR: purple\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?path=ASIN\/0553275720&amp;link_code=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=thedeadhand-20&amp;creative=9325\" target=_blank>Fantastic Voyage<\/A>&nbsp;<\/I>and<I>&nbsp;<A style=\"COLOR: purple\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0050539\/\" target=_blank>Incredible Shrinking Man<\/A><\/I>&nbsp;made exciting movies, but they and all their kind have a fundamental flaw:<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>Quantum physics.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>That\u2019s right \u2013&nbsp;<A style=\"COLOR: purple\" href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/physics\/laureates\/1918\/planck-bio.html\" target=_blank>Max Planck<\/A>&nbsp;and his buddies discovered back in the 1920s that the universe contains absolute limits. Planck wasn\u2019t very happy with the results, but they determined that the very concept of predictability disappears at the very very small end of the spectrum. For example, you can determine the precise location of a very small object (such as an electron), but you have no idea when it was at that spot. Your best bet is to find a compromise that gives you a reasonably close approximation of its location within a time window that works for you.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>Planck didn\u2019t like this at all, and&nbsp;<A style=\"COLOR: purple\" href=\"http:\/\/www.westegg.com\/einstein\/\" target=_blank>Albert Einstein<\/A>&nbsp;commented about the uncertainty contained in the new physics that \u201cThe Old One [God] doesn\u2019t roll dice.\u201d<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>Things continued much the same until \u2013 in 1977 \u2013 an MIT undergrad named&nbsp;<A style=\"COLOR: purple\" href=\"http:\/\/e-drexler.com\/p\/idx04\/00\/0404drexlerBioCV.html\" target=_blank>K. Eric Drexler<\/A>&nbsp;burst into scientific consciousness. He envisioned a swarm of very tiny robots that could build essentially anything at all, atom by atom or molecule by molecule. Fill a black box with these \u201cmolecular assemblers,\u201d add a supply of inexpensive chemicals, and out would come gasoline, rubies, space ships, floor wax\u2026without significant cost or labor. In the human body (shades of Asimov), nanomachines could repair bone and tissue and cure disease. Released into the environment, nanomachines could clean the Planet\u2019s air and water.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>This was innovative stuff \u2013 and way more exciting than anything else on the scientific horizon. An entire generation of nerds began grappling with this new \u201cnano\u201d concept.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>In the fourteen years between 1977 and 1991, when MIT finally awarded him the first ever PhD in Molecular Nanotechnology, Drexler published some twenty technical and research papers including the landmark paper, \u201c<A style=\"COLOR: purple\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imm.org\/PNAS.html\" target=_blank>Molecular engineering: An approach to the development of general capabilities for molecular manipulation<\/A>\u201d in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (1981), six books including his thesis and in his popular 1986 book,&nbsp;<I><A style=\"COLOR: purple\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foresight.org\/EOC\/index.html\" target=_blank>Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology<\/A><\/I>, his more technical book in 1991,&nbsp;<I><A style=\"COLOR: purple\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foresight.org\/UTF\/Unbound_LBW\/index.html\" target=_blank>Unbounding the Future: The Nanotechnology Revolution<\/A><\/I>, and three patents including one in 1986 for the Solar Sail \u2013 an innovative way to propel space craft throughout the solar system.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>One of Drexler\u2019s early admirers was&nbsp;<A style=\"COLOR: purple\" href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/chemistry\/laureates\/1996\/smalley-autobio.html\" target=_blank>Richard F. Smalley<\/A>, a chemist at Rice University. Smalley shared the Nobel Prize in 1996 (with&nbsp;<A style=\"COLOR: purple\" href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/chemistry\/laureates\/1996\/curl-autobio.html\" target=_blank>Robert F. Curl, Jr.<\/A>&nbsp;and Sir&nbsp;<A style=\"COLOR: purple\" href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/chemistry\/laureates\/1996\/kroto-autobio.html\">Harry W. Kroto<\/A>) as the co-inventor of&nbsp;<A style=\"COLOR: purple\" href=\"http:\/\/www.godunov.com\/Bucky\/fullerene.html\" target=_blank>Buckminsterfullerene<\/A>, a soccer ball-shaped group of carbon molecules popularly known as Buckyballs. In the Summer of 2005, Smalley told&nbsp;<A style=\"COLOR: purple\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nanotech-now.com\/ed-regis-interview-122001.htm\" target=_blank>Ed Regis<\/A>&nbsp;(the author of&nbsp;<I><A style=\"COLOR: purple\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?path=ASIN\/0316738522&amp;link_code=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=thedeadhand-20&amp;creative=9325\" target=_blank>Nano: The Emerging Science of Nanotechnology<\/A><\/I>) that \u201c[In the early 1990s] I was enchanted by Engines of Creation. I read it in a single sitting, and then I reread it.\u201d In 1999, Smalley testified to Congress about \u201cwhat will be possible when we learn to build things at the ultimate level of control, one atom at a time.\u201d<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>With time, however, Smalley came to believe that Drexler\u2019s concept was scientifically impossible. Drexler had warned that nanotechnology could be misused with disastrous consequences for humankind \u2013 brought into sharp focus by&nbsp;<A style=\"COLOR: purple\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crichton-official.com\/\" target=_blank>Michael Crichton<\/A>\u2019s best-selling book,&nbsp;<A style=\"COLOR: purple\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?path=ASIN\/0061015725&amp;link_code=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=thedeadhand-20&amp;creative=9325\" target=_blank>Prey<\/A>, wherein a lab accidentally releases a nanoparticle swarm. The particles eventually sweep across the Nevada desert causing havoc and mayhem, with the potential for destroying all life on Earth.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>In May 2003, the House of Representatives passed (by a 405 to 19 vote) the&nbsp;<I><A style=\"COLOR: purple\" class=ugdv_link href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=http:\/\/www.smalltimes.com\/smallstage\/images\/nanobills189.pdf\" target=_blank>Nanotechnology Research and Development Act<\/A><\/I>&nbsp;for which Drexler had lobbied long and hard for several years. Before the bill got to the Senate in November, however, Smalley and friends stepped up to the plate. Drexler had always been the nerd\u2019s nerd, socially inept, and politically na\u00efve. Smalley, on the other hand, was the paragon of scientific sophistication \u2013 a smooth-talking, hand-shaking, political veteran.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>Smalley accused Drexler of deliberate fear mongering and worse, telling congress that his ideas were pure fantasy. A coalition called the&nbsp;<A style=\"COLOR: purple\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nanobusiness.org\/\" target=_blank>NanoBusiness Alliance<\/A>&nbsp;added the horsepower of venture capitalist&nbsp;<A style=\"COLOR: purple\" href=\"http:\/\/nanobusiness.org\/info\/personnel\/Founders\/fMarkModzelewski\/\" target=_blank>F. Mark Modzelewski<\/A>, long-time opponent of Drexler, who quipped that Drexler\u2019s ideas were like \u201ca wino&#8217;s claims on skid row that bugs are crawling under his skin.\u201d<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>Faced with this kind of high-powered opposition, unable to get any meaningful support from politically inept Drexler, and having to deflect a growing public perception that nanotechnology was dangerous, thanks to Crichton\u2019s popular novel, House and Senate staffers finally pulled all the funding provisions for development of Drexler\u2019s molecular assemblers out of the compromise bill. President Bush, with a smiling Smalley at his side, signed a bill that virtually ignored Drexler\u2019s ideas in favor of more mundane but \u201cattainable\u201d goals.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>It was no contest. When the dust cleared, Drexler found himself alone, outside the scientific mainstream of the very discipline he had invented.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>But it wasn\u2019t over by a long shot. Somebody forgot to tell the grass roots researchers that their goal was impossible. Since they had no idea that what they wanted to do was scientifically impossible, they kept right on trecking. Smalley\u2019s old stomping ground, Rice University, was at the center of this hotbed of scientifically untenable activity.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>For eight years commencing back in 1997, Prof.&nbsp;<A style=\"COLOR: purple\" href=\"http:\/\/cohesion.rice.edu\/naturalsciences\/chemistry\/FacultyDetail.cfm?RiceID=1027\" target=_blank>James M. Tour<\/A>&nbsp;lead a research team consisting of Kevin F. Kelly and graduate students Yasuhiro Shirai, Andrew J. Osgood, and Yuming Zhao. Since Smalley neglected to tell these guys that they couldn\u2019t get there from here \u2013 guess what?<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>They did just that.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>On September 26, 2005, they published their results in the&nbsp;<A style=\"COLOR: purple\" href=\"http:\/\/acswebcontent.acs.org\/home.html\" target=_blank>American Chemical Society<\/A>\u2019s&nbsp;<I><A style=\"COLOR: purple\" href=\"http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/journals\/nalefd\/\" target=_blank>Nano Letters<\/A><\/I>. They titled their article, \u201c<A style=\"COLOR: purple\" href=\"http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/cgi-bin\/abstract.cgi\/nalefd\/asap\/abs\/nl051915k.html\" target=_blank>Directional Control in Thermally Driven Single-Molecule Nanocars<\/A>,\u201d and there is no doubt that they have created something that was considered completely impossible by Smalley and colleagues just a short time before.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P align=center><IMG style=\"WIDTH: 270px; HEIGHT: 190px\" hspace=10 alt=Nanotrimmer vspace=5 src=\"http:\/\/www.argee.net\/General%20Photos\/Nanotrimmer.jpg\">&nbsp; <IMG style=\"WIDTH: 270px; HEIGHT: 190px\" hspace=10 alt=Nanotrimmer vspace=5 src=\"http:\/\/www.argee.net\/General%20Photos\/Nanocar.jpg\">&nbsp;<I><BR>James M. Tour\u2019s Nanocar &amp; Nanotruck<\/I>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<I>James M. Tour\u2019s Nanotrimmer<\/I><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>These are very tiny vehicles, four nanometers long and three wide \u2013 20,000 would fit side-by-side on a human hair. The wheels consist of 60-atom carbon Buckyballs that really roll across a landscape of pure gold. Each axel on the car and truck, and all three on the trimmer pivot independently so the vehicles can negotiate around, over, or through atom-sized potholes and mounds on the gold surface.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>According to Tour, these single-molecule vehicles cannot be made any smaller. We\u2019ve reached the quantum limit defined by Planck and colleagues nearly a century ago.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>The nanocars simply go from here to there. The nanotrucks can carry a small molecule from here to there, and deposit it upon arrival. The trimmer can get there even if the surface isn\u2019t perfectly smooth, and it can carry a payload.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>This is exactly what Smalley said was scientifically impossible \u2013 the controllable transport of individual molecules to specific sites where they can be deposited in a controlled way to meet specific construction\/manufacturing goals.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>Tour says that we still are a long way from economically useful applications of this development. Nevertheless, the initial hurdle is behind us now. I think Tour is being way too conservative in his estimate of how fast things will progress.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>A few short years following Smalley\u2019s discovery and development of nanotubes and Buckyballs, entire industries are dependent on these erstwhile scientific curiosities. Lasers once occupied the isn\u2019t-this-cool-corner of sciences\u2019 curiosity shop, but the world we know today would be entirely impossible without the ubiquitous laser.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>I suspect that real economic uses for nanocars and trucks will surge in a similar manner, until we will experience nanovehicle traffic jams worse than on the Los Angeles freeways on Friday afternoons.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>Oh yeah \u2013 there has been at least one recorded collision already:<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P align=center><IMG hspace=10 alt=Nanotrimmer vspace=5 align=center src=\"http:\/\/www.argee.net\/General%20Photos\/Nanocollision.jpg\" width=300 height=210><I><BR>Nanotruck collision \u2013 indicated by arrow<\/I><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px\"><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>So, how about those little cars.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; 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