Submitted by Rezeno56 t3_10nat66 in singularity
Tall-Junket5151 t1_j69oc6s wrote
The way the video describes such a machine would be so impossibly impractical. Moving parts are a nightmare to deal with, one little breakdown of any of those nanoscale moving parts would cause the entire thing to stop working correctly.
A more practical design for a nanofabricator wouldn’t brute force atoms together with nanoscale factory machines, but would instead use precision lasers to both breakdown the starting molecules and as a catalyst to overcome the potential energy necessary for atoms to bond in a particular configuration.
Not even to mention the scaling issue with the machine approach, with precision lasers, it’s infinity more scaleable and to scale up all you would need is more lasers that work in coordinating.
Rezeno56 OP t1_j6azy8z wrote
Correct, which is why the video shows an example of what a nanofabricator will look like. Nanofabricators in the future, will not look like that in the video.
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