FYI: Duroquinone; processor

[Cybe R. Wizard]

thomas fisher <studio1 at commspeed.net>  said:
> Article says:
[...]
> 
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080311/sc_livescience/tinybrainlikecomputercreated
> http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2008/March/11030802.asp
> 
> Hope this is of use
> Tom
> 
I had to send this to the article's author: 

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In the Yahoo article,
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080311/sc_livescience/tinybrainlikecomputercreated
You said: 
Duroquinone is less than a nanometer, or a billionth of a meter large.
This makes it hundreds of times smaller than a wavelength of visible
light.
To  which I reply:
One time less than anything is zero.  'Smaller than' is arrived at by
division, not multiplication.  Duroquinone may be
one one-hundredth as large as a wavelength of light but hundreds of
times smaller is negative existence, and therefore nonsensical.
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Sometimes I sure wish that science/math writers knew a little science or
math.

Cybe R. Wizard
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