To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
What comes after nanometer on the scale of small? That’s where we’re headed.
6 posted on
06/06/2017 5:41:34 PM PDT by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Willie Sutton went into robbing banks and Hillary Clinton went into politics)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
Picometers (pm) is next. But the diameter of a silicon atom is around 200 pm, which is 0.2 nanometers. I don’t think they can get smaller than that.
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
Angstrom is one-tenth of a nanometer.
There’s a couple even smaller I don’t remember.
Visible light waves start at 400 nanometers.
16 posted on
06/06/2017 5:48:46 PM PDT by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
“Not There” technology...
You’ll have to believe in it before it works.
17 posted on
06/06/2017 6:00:04 PM PDT by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
[[What comes after nanometer on the scale of small?]]
NoNoMeter
25 posted on
06/06/2017 8:52:00 PM PDT by
Bob434
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