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| lightninboy | Apr 20 2008, 09:44 PM Post #1 |
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Grace Evangelical Society Online Chat WebBoard archive: QUOTE=Erin Casson Hey friends, I figure this is the right place to share with you an interest of mine that I really enjoy, perhaps some of you are interested in it, as well. Its called Nanotechnology or Molecular Engineering, also called Molecular Manufacturing. God created matter back in the beginning and the existence of the atoms and their rules of bonding is an amazing and exciting testimony to His endless wonder and His sustaining power. Basically, nanotechnology means the technology and science of manipulating matter at the molecular/atomic level, and being able to build machines and computers and devices at that level. Nano is Greek for dwarf and means billionth of, a Nano Meter is a billionth of a meter. About 10 ^-9 or so. Some cool websites for this are: www.molecularassembler.com www.crnano.org e-drexler.com wwww.zyvex.com/nanotech Here are some good images of proposed nano machine parts: http://www.somewhereville.com/?p=96 Some of the possible applications include machines that flow through the bloodstream cleaning arteries, killing dangerous bacteria and viruses, repairing cell damage, and more; "Replicator" machines able to assemble atoms into any chemically-stable 3D Structure, including copies of itself. Basically a "Universal Building Machine" that runs off of solar power, dirt, air, and water to produce whatever you want. Superstrong materials like shatterproof diamond fiber composites, super powerful computers, smart materials that can change shape, and a whole lot more! I love to envision how such technology will take off during the Millenium and beyond. Ofcourse, we can envision even more powerful technologies, like the ability to manipulate nuclear subatomic particles, but nanotech is at least based on the known rules of chemistry, its just using a mechanical force to bond the reactions together. Feel free to share your views on this guys and gals. The sad thing is that in a fallen sinful state powerful technologies like this can also be abused. QUOTE=Von McCrea I've heard a little about that sort of thing here in South Dakota. http://www.southdakotamagazine.com/?p=568 |
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| lightninboy | Apr 20 2008, 09:45 PM Post #2 |
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Free Grace Churches Forums archive: QUOTE=Erin I was reading this interesting and feasible speculation about advanced molecular nanotechnology: http://www.rfreitas.com/Nano/TheFutu...-March1996.htm I would like your views as to how this will tie in with Christianity and the church and the end times. Here are some excerpts from it: Robert Freitas by the way is a very clever guy, has written several books, and is doing nanotech research. Please pray for his eternal salvation, too. " SUPERHERO SUIT. Imagine wearing a body suit made of intelligent armor fabric half a millimeter thick – probably thinner than the shirt you're wearing now. Armor fabric is a sheet of 400-micron-thick flawless diamond, broken into small plates to allow flexing and embedded in a diamond mesh fabric. Plates are coated top and bottom with a 100-micron layer of 1-micron active nanorobots providing structural support, repair, and powerful artificial muscular action. The suit stops high-velocity (700 m/sec) slugs and 1-ounce shrapnel, and reacts fast enough to stiffen locally under deformation. If anyone throws a punch, it feels like hitting steel to them, but hardly a tap to you. The fabric works as a powerful exoskeleton, allowing the wearer to lift (and resist crushing by) up to 5-10 ton loads. (If you give the nanorobots a couple of seconds to weld the diamond plates into seamless crystal, the garment goes selectively rigid and supports 1000-ton static loads.) You should also be able to make 15-foot vertical leaps, jog comfortably at 25 mph and sprint to 60 mph. Of course, the suit does virtually all the work during these feats, piloted, in effect, by its human "passenger." (Imagine a motorized pogo stick.) The outfit weighs 4 kg, consumes up to 40 kilowatts of power drawn from 4-kg hour-power packs, and stows itself to the size of a grapefruit." "the food replicator, will put most farmers out of business by the mid-21st century. Nano-manufactured food will be structurally and nutritionally perfect – no contaminants and precisely specified levels of vitamins, minerals, fats, bones, fibers, sugars, flavors, colors, textures and intoxicants." The sad thing is this: While I love this technology and think we will have this and far far far more in the Millenium, in this fallen world, mankind would abuse such tools horribly! The same machines that can put atoms into molecules and molecules into solid materials can take materials, and people, apart. Anyhow, enjoy QUOTE=Marty Cauley So in the absence of death will I still be able to eat steak in eternity future. People in church tell me I'm crazy when I mention that possibility, but being a sci-fi fan I could at least see it as a theoretical possibilty. And will people in natural bodies be able to teleport? If so, what about the metaphysical problems of is the same person who was teleported the same one that was rematerialized? And if the human being can be dematerialized and rematerialized what is to prevent it from being copied. Will clones have spirits? QUOTE=Erin Very good questions Marty! As far as eating steak in eternity where there is no animal death, I see it like this: God is the Creator of all atoms and molecules so He can create fresh steak better than any that came from an animal, right from energy. Perhaps we will be able to materialize already existing energy (only God can create from truly nothing) and matter into food directly. The issue about spirits, souls, and teleportation has been discussed a lot. I wonder if a form of teleportation is possible in which we travel through a "wormhole" in hyperspace, a higher dimensional space, as opposed to this breaking atoms down and reassembling them. Very good book from Answers in Genesis: Starlight and Time by Russel Humphreys. He discusses topics such as how the universe can be young (6-10 K years) while starlight still appearing to be from billions of light years away, and "white hole cosmology", and how spacetime is described in the Bible as being foldable, warpable, stretchable, an actual thing, not a true nothing, and how scientific evidence such as Vacuum Polarization and and Maxwell calling space a "Diaelectric medium" also backs this up. I once read a calculation, about how "strong" an object would be, if made from "pure space", shaped into a structure. Say you have a sword blade or a plate of "matter" made from spacetime itself..the strength would be INCREDIBLE. PS how's the book coming? QUOTE=Marty Cauley I hadn't been back to this site in a month. I thought things were moving to Don's new site. Anyway, I was reading a creationist book last month about time not being constant. I'd be interested in any research on time bubbles. I use time bubbles in my book, which like the Energizer Bunny, is still going. |
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