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Nanotechnology
Moliere's The Bourgeois Gentleman
• MONSIEUR JOURDAIN
Rabi period 64 ns
A nitrogen atom can be put Spin coherence time T2 > 0.24 ms,
into a C60 fullerene cage. giving many ESR Rabi oscillations.
2 nm
5 nm
His mission:
befriend fellow teen Natalie in
order to gain access to her
father, a scientist unknowingly
developing a fleet of deadly
nanobots for the evil
organization ERIS.
Sources of confusion about nanotechnology
creator sustainer
agnosticism
? ?
atheism
deism
theism
The exquisite structure of
biomolecular systems enables
their optimum function.
What is the origin of this?
Creation or Design
or Apparent Design?
Paley said that if you find
a watch there must be a
watchmaker.
Intelligent design
What we cannot
All observed explain “caused by
phenomena God”
GOD
“…a universe with no edge in space, no beginning
or end in time, and nothing for a Creator to do.”
What we can
explain
“caused by
science”
Are we to “play at God” with nanotechnology?
The Cavendish Laboratory
The great oak doors opening on the site of the original building had
carved on them, by Maxwell's wish, the text from Psalm 111 Magna
opera Domini esquisira in ornnes coluntares ejus. Shortly after the
move to the new buildings in 1973 a devout research student suggested
to me that the same text should be displayed, in English, at the entrance.
I undertook to put the proposal to the Policy Committee, confident that
they would veto it; to my surprise, however, they heartily agreed both to
the idea and to the choice of Coverdale’s translation, inscribed here on
mahogany by Will Carter. There is a legend that when Rayleigh wished
the same text to stand at the beginning of the six volumes of his
Collected Papers, the Cambridge University Press demurred, on the
ground that some readers might misunderstand who was the Lord
referred to.
And the word flesh became
John 1:14
• Our scientific culture normally views the laws of physics as predating the
actual physical universe. … In the beginning was the Word and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God (John 1:1), attests to the belief.