[ExI] simulation as an improvement over reality

[John Clark]

On Dec 24, 2010, at 6:26 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:

> Spike, we *did* discuss strange matter life way back, including
> possibility of life near Planck scale.
> It seems our collective list memory has got a case of Alzheimer's...

I wrote this to the list on January 8 1996: 

I remember hearing speculation about femtomachines that operated at a scale of 10^-15m . The idea was to build things with strangelet quark structures. Unfortunately I don't see how this could work, objects would not be rigid, and you can't build machines with a liquid. There is little more I can say on 
that subject because unlike nanotechnology, building things on this scale would require a scientific breakthrough and they are inherently unpredictable.

  John K Clark 



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