Nano-scientist's dark secret

BBC News ^ | Wednesday, 4 February | Nick Green

[farmfriend]

Science ping.

[Lazamataz]

Shades of Pons/Fleishman.

BTW, I just invented a Perpetual Motion Machine.

No, really. I need a 7-figure job with Bell Labs.

[marlon]

Have you thought of asking Al Gore for some advise?

[expatpat]

This guy was not only a crook, but also an idiot. If other scientists can't reproduce it, then it ain't going to be long before they start looking at you carefully.

[MonroeDNA]

The bua-ble told us so.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - ETHINCS - SCIENTISTS

[expatpat]

No comprende. Maybe I'm slow today, but......

[Flightdeck]

Well, Bell Labs actually did invent the current transistor and MOSFET, so I'll give them a get-out-of-jail-free card.

[17th Miss Regt]

I beg to differ. Al Gore invented both of those.

[_Jim]

Hmmm ... the 'Enron' of science, the Jason Blair of nanotechnology ...

[_Jim]

He had beaten a huge raft of teams around the world to the discovery of the first non-silicon-based transistor.

The first nanotechnology non-silicon-based transistor maybe?

I'm not up to speed with what what the nano-guys are up to, but Germanium (and other Group III and IV elements such as Indium) are suitable semiconductors for making 'transistors' - and have been made into transistors at times in the past (esp. Germanium - some materials are more suitable then others for various reasons or are easier to work with during the 'fabrication' process) ...

[Darksheare]

I just created a time machie and intend to..
Hey, wait a minute.
Who ARE these guys that just pulled up out front?
And what are they *AAaaaIIIEEE!*


Unit 'Darksheare' has been neutralised.

[William Tell]

Lazamataz said: "Shades of Pons/Fleishman."

Has there ever been any suggestion that Pons and Fleishman were purposely fabricating their results? I was always skeptical because nobody else was able to get their results, but I thought even Pons and Fleishman admitted that lack of reproducibility was a problem with their work.

[Consort]

Nano Legends.

[PsyOp]

And yet, whenever a "scientist" says the global warming/cooling/thawing is imminent we have to ditch our SUVs and stop heating/cooling our home....

[sauropod]

Quite interesting.

[Brett66]

This is nanoelectronics, not true nanotechnology. Nanotechnology is the construction of things atom-by-atom using molecular machines in massively parralel systems to construct large and small scale objects. Here's an excellent online book, free of charge, that explains exactly what it is. It will be a fundamental revolution of every single technology we have and will change the world, and even humans, in fundamental ways.It will bring about the "singularity":

Unbounding the Future: the Nanotechnology Revolution

And of course Eric Drexler's visionary book should be mentioned too. The Engines of Creation is also online, free of charge:

Engines of Creation The Coming Era of Nanotechnology

[pointsal]

pinging...chads

[Mikey]

I'll just extract some of my Borg nanites. Hows that grab you?