Wednesday, September 15, 2004 Hip-Hop Atoms For the first time, a team of physicists of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has controlled "the movement of a single atom back and forth between neighboring locations on a crystal." This will allow to build nanoscale devices atom by atom. Not happy enough with this technological breakthrough, the NIST team also discovered that the atoms were 'noisy' when moving on the crystal surface. They converted the electronic signals emitted by the atoms into audio ones and they were quite surprised to hear something similar to a 'hip-hop' musician's rhythmic 'scratching'.
http://mindjack.com/relay (as an aside i wanted to resend what i wrote when i first heard of laura's passing. couldn't find it. suffice it to say that i never met laura offline but always appreciated her willingness to fight for detroit. our numbers are growing...in part due to her efforts.) peace (now from BALTIMORE) lks
