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<P>I'm working on the book and I've left a crucial, climactic section quite vague that I need to start to flesh out in detail. You know the kind of vague I mean: hero neutralizes the threat and action ensues. Only I was naughty and eager to just get writing and hadn't completed my research for it. So this is a theoretical question for all you engineers and physicists and just plain smart folk:</P>
<P>What would theoretically destroy nanobots? I guess the more specific question would be: what disassembles diamondoid nanostructures at an atomic level and reverts them back to harmless carbon atoms? Or simply screws with them enough to render them neutral/inactive/harmless? To give you some possibly important detail, these are medicinal bots and would be used internally in the brain. They would need to pass the blood/brain barrier after ingestion. And there are a whole lot of them. I don't want to say anymore in a public posting, since all my postings seem to be accessible on Google lately! [What's that about???] If you have any questions that I can answer with more specifics, that will lead to a better overall answer, please email me privately.</P>
<P>Crichton used the magnet gag in Prey. Therefore, I'd like to avoid that if I can. Hell, I'm not even sure that made a whole lot of sense! But a lot in that book didn't make a whole lot of sense.</P>
<P>[Just so you all know upfront, I am not demonizing nanotech. I am no Crichtonesque technoscold. I have good people and bad people and they are both using nanotech. Guns don't kill people. People kill people...]</P>
<P>Consider your assistance a step toward popularizing the H+ meme. Anyone who nails it gets a big, wet, sloppy thank you in the acknowledgements! (There are a few of you in there already, BTW.)</P>
<P>Thanks for your help!</P>
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