FYI: Duroquinone; processor
Cybe R. Wizard
cybe_r_wizard at earthlink.net
Thu Mar 13 04:37:03 UTC 2008
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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