NANODISTURBER: The Next Industrial Revolution
“As above, so below”, the old hermetic principle from WAY BACK into antiquity continues to make sense to me, as times and technology change; continually pushing the boundaries of their all pervasive - meanings - as humanity sails into the void with its extra-sensory probes. From the FAR-OUT principles of Hubble’s Red-shift and the EVER expanding Universe, to the atomic CONSTELLATIONS at the bottom shaft, DOWN where nanotechnology has emerged on the cusp of the 21st century - HERE, GODISTURBER PITCHES its laboratory and discovers nothing subtracted from itself, & woid is born.
GODISTURBER is a species of nanotechnological research, as our guiding principles have been scale invariance: cosmological macro design principles correleated with micro, molecular principles that crisscross, like chicken wire, in the form of isomorphisms. Some of the Nanotechnological factories we have constructed as GODISTURBER devices are thankfully - invisible technologies - for the most part, already swarming within earths datasphere - our GD factories modify existing objects with pastes and laminates - that simply spread molecular, chromatic, electrical and/or memory juice, spread like strawberry jam - onto anything - abducting the object into the datasphere, biosphere or electromagnetosphere. Tentatively called The REMIX - this nano-pasting and its parody on ART, as reflection, and on ART as Parasite technology, simply freshly squeezed SAMPLES of existing technology with various instruments - photographic, audio, X-ray, bio-molecular and - using advanced computing and CAD systems - fabricate the object, and its function, down to the finest working details.
But what sets GODISTURBER nano-technologies apart from the rest of the field in 2009 is simply the state of the art. Have you been to any of the streets of the worlds major cities and seen the ART upon the walls?
It seems to me that we now experience ART in a “woid” as James Joyce called it. A contradictory and irrational “word” trapped in the “Void”. Mangled and entangled by profit-driven media, unable to approximate the language of quantum mechanics due to the inability to invoke the word maybe, and according our research done at this time, using this method and these instruments it appears that… and so the modern era of faux image, faux word and faux faith seems to be upon us, a global praxis of control fanaticism. When GODISTURBER lurks around we often see a HUGE Nietzche market for some simple common sense and good research based initiatives among all the one’s designed for PRIVATE INTERESTS. Such greedy malarchy going on in the worlds MARKETS. Lawyer run capitalism with the artists and scientists left wrestling behind the iron curtains of national security can produce only false icons and false values. But now with the advent of nanotechnology another wave of opportunity presents itself to the artistic and creative community.
SO, to meet the challenge of the end of the word, of the VOIDING OF image and of faith, we have sunk to lowest place, right down to the bottom. LO! The world of the NANO! “Atoms and Ifs” as Joyce said in Finnegans Wake: any self respecting nanotechnologists dream sequence, translated back into the closest approximation of English.
In the world of Atoms and Ifs, in the realm of Quantum Mechanics GODISTURBER have extensive experience in the fields of theoretical MAYBELOGIC, practical mathematics, CAD engineering, lithographic printing, biology, pharmacology, optics, chemistry, 3D modelling, Neuro Linguistic Programing, software programing, ART history, Quantum Psychology, Non-Euclidean Politics, engraving, Ideogramic method. All deployed within our OUTPUT.
I have personally spent a number of years in the United States at an organization that holds one of the largest collections of nanotechological related media, and also hosted some of the nano-engineers, physicists, investors and nanotechnologists themselves: Soundphotosynthesis.org. While living and working with this company i crossed paths with Creon Levitt and Jack Sarfatti. Creon helped establish the nanotechnology division at NASA and Jack Sarfatti is a part of the constellation of physicists whom are reaching into POST QUANTUM PHYSICS. And has been working within the fields for over 50 years that first built pathways to enable nano-tech engineering, among other things - like better space travel, and, according to Dr. Sarfatti maybe space-time travel? Type either of those two names into your search engines and read their published works, slowly. Jack first came to my attension from reading most of the works of Dr. Robert Anton Wilson, the author whom IMHO has laid the humanitarian groundwork for our coming era of technological responsibility required if we are, together, as world-around-humanity - to begin manufacturing everything, thats everything! At the atomic scale, and maybe have the ability to traverse space and time in new experiencial ways. It seems to me like we must all take on the kind of personal responsibility we exhibited by Taoist and Buddhist practitoners. We are the DOT BLOOM PUNCH!
To prove i am not bluffing, and know what i am doing i will begin to flash out the fields of NANOTECHNOLOGY and give you, dear reader, an idea of what NANODISTURBER does, and may do in the coming months and years. (THE FOLLOWING ARE EXTENSIVE QUOTES FROM MARK AND JOHN RATNER. WITH COMMENTS IN CAPITALS BY FLY. SUCH AS…)
“LIMESTONE MICRO CHALKIN CHATTERBEATBOX.”
Zeolites are actually quite common; they are often used as domestic water softeners, where they facilitate the exchange of calcium ions by sodium ions and reduce water hardness. There are hundreds of different zeolite structures, both synthetic and artificial. The special nanopore structure of zeolites is the secret of their catalytic capabilities, and they represent one of the first broad-scale, highly profitable applications of nanotechnology.
“SPRING HATH COME”
DNA has the structure of a double helix or double spiral staircase. It also looks (and to some extent acts) like a spring. When DNA is tightly wound, it is remarkably compact.
“AMANITA MUSCARIA MOTORS?”
Kinesin is a nanoscale molecular motor that carries molecular cargo through the cell by moving along nanoscale tracks, called microtubules, within the cell. In many respects it is the world’s smallest type of train. Molecular motors were discovered during the study of one of the energy-generating functions of the body called sodium/potassium ATPase. This is a complex enzyme that is responsible for producing and transducing energy stored in the molecule ATP, which is the common energy currency of the body powering everything including muscle movement. Sodium/potassium ATPase actually functions as a rotary motor: the central unit of the nanostructure rotates around a pivot, and the outside part of the nanocluster reacts differently with chemical groups around the periphery.
“GRAFF FIGHT”
“Everyone is familiar with graphite as the black stuff in pencils. Some people also use it as a lubricant for machinery because, at the molecular level, it is formed out of sheets of carbon that slide across each other with very little friction. These sheets of carbon are comprised of carbon atoms linked together hexagonally like chicken wire. Nanoscientists are very interested in them because, when rolled into tubes, they have some amazing properties. These cylinders of graphite are called carbon nanotubes. When the roll is only one sheet of carbon atoms thick, they are called single-walled carbon nanotubes. Nanotubes are some of the first true nanomaterials engineered at the molecular level, and they exhibit physical and electrical properties that are truly breathtaking.
“YOUR MEMS RANG!”
For one thing, MEMS is concerned with structures between 1,000 and 1,000,000 nanometers, much
bigger than the nanoscale. Further, nanoscience and nanotechnology are concerned with all properties of structures on the nanoscale, whether they are chemical, physical, quantum, or mechanical. It is more diverse and stretches into dozens of subfields. Nanotech is not nanobots.
“COMPONENTS”
Nanostructures must be assembled from components. The fundamental building blocks are atoms of the 91 naturally occurring elements.
“NANO VINYL RECORDS: MI NIMINI DISK”
Within the next few years (according to most experts, by 2010), all the basic principles involved in making chips will need to be rethought as we shift from microchips to nanochips. For the first time since Moore stated his laws, chip design may need to undergo a revolution, not an evolution. These issues have caught the attention of big corporations and have them scrambling for their place in the nanochip future. To ignore them would be like making vacuum tubes or vinyl records today.
“MPHDJ?”
Unlike information technology, where almost anyone can train to be a technician and get to the point of being productive in a matter of months, nanoscience research will, in most cases, require in-depth scientific knowledge and a PhD-level background. In the short term, there is likely to be a shortage of talent, especially if nanotechnology start-ups become more common.
“OIL refinements. ECONOMIC AND NATIONAL SECURITY PARANOIA ABOUT TOTAL ABUNDANCE?” So what forms of nanotechnology are we most likely to see and touch? Perhaps first on the list of consumer nanogoods are smart materials such as coatings and laminates. Even though you may not put “coatings and laminates” on your grocery list, they are around you every day. In this case, they are thin layers of various materials that are engineered at the nanoscale to enhance other products in various ways. For example, the windows in new Audi A4 series cars are coated with glass laminates that block harmful ultraviolet radiation that can cause skin cancer.
“NANODISTURBER: …TO CREATE ART. MEANING AND AS ABOVE SO BELOW”
Nanotechnology encompasses how we harness our knowledge of nanoscience to create materials, machines, and devices that will fundamentally change the way we live and work. Areas in which nanoscience and nanotechnology are concentrated: smart materials, sensors, biological structures, electronics, and optics.
“NANOWAY TO THE NEW ECONOMY: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL. SMALLER BEAUTI-FULLER.”
Nano is big business. The National Science Foundation predicts that nano-related goods and services could be a $1 trillion market by 2015, making it not only one of the fastest-growing industries in history but also larger than the combined telecommunications and information technology industries at the beginning of the technology boom in 1998.
“LISPOGRAPHY! SACRED GEOMETRY. MASK AND ANTI-MASK.”
Many types of small-scale lithography operate in very much this way. Indeed, the common methods used to make current computer chips normally use optical or x-ray lithography, in which a master mask is made using chemical methods and light passes through that mask to produce the actual chip structures. It works just like a silk screen for a T-shirt.
“AMRITA MCARA?”
Nature and the nanotechnologist have 91 different atoms to play with—each is roughly spherical but different in its size and its ability to interact with and bind to other atoms. Many, many different molecules exist—millions are known and hundreds of new ones are made or discovered each year.
“LIMESTONE CALCIUM & OXIDES”
Clay is mostly aluminum oxide, sand is mostly silicon dioxide, firebrick is magnesium silicon oxide, and calcium oxides are important in traditional tile applications. Like polymers and unlike metals, ceramics generally have localized electrons so they do not conduct electricity (though when super-cooled some can act as superconductors)
“COSMIC SERPENT AND THE R A Y N B O W GIRLS?.”
DNA is an almost unique molecule because each poker chip (called a base pair) can have one of four compositions (called AT, TA, CG, or GC). For each position on the strand, it is possible to control which base pair is present. That’s because the two planar molecules that compose them can only be chosen from a set of four molecules called adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine, which are abbreviated A, T, G, and C. A and T will only bond to each other and not to G or C. Also, G and C will only bond to each other and not to A or T. Because of these limitations, the only possible base pairs are AT and GC and their opposites—TA and CG. These are placed on the double helix, in a particular order, and they code for all the functions of biology.
“GODISTURBER: FARMER SUE ECCLES & LILLY”
Drugs generally work by binding either to a protein or to DNA and causing changes in those
structures’ functions.
“SPRAY PAINTED QUANTUM DOT DOTTING”
If marbles are placed together on a board as tightly as possible, they will form a tight group, with each marble surrounded by six others. If this array were spray painted from the top, and then the marbles were tipped off the board, the paint would appear as a set of painted dots, each shaped like a triangle but with concave sides.
“GODISTURBER PRESENTS MAYBELOGIC & NANNY
No calculation can predict what value the spin has until you measure it, at which point the spin becomes fixed. Until that point, it behaves a little like 0 and a little like 1 and might be more readily thought of as both 0 and 1 at the same time, a personality disorder that quantum scientists call a superposition of states 0 and 1. Why is this interesting? Although the spin isn’t determined until you measure it, you can tweak it using light of specific frequencies. The light that you use and how you pulse and polarize it act as a program for your quantum computer. But the qubit’s state (1 or 0) isn’t determined while the program is running since you haven’t measured it yet. Therefore, it effectively executes a given command as if it has both values, performing the two operations in parallel. Qubits can also be linked to one another so that the state of one affects the state of the others. This process is called entanglement and it is the key to making a computer with more than one qubit.
“NANO NANO, MONK CALLING ORSON. WHAT IS NANO BEHAVIOR?”
nanoscale materials have properties quite different from materials that exist at the atomic scale (simple gasses) or from extended structures such as metals, polymers, or ceramics. Conceptual, modeling, and theoretical ideas about nano behavior are crucial in order to develop techniques for mass production at the nanoscale.
“TERABIT OF MEAT”
DNA has several advantages for use as a computer component. For one thing, its data density is fantastic. DNA “bits” or base pairs are packed onto DNA strands with a spacing of about one-third of a nanometer between pairs. This translates into approximately 100 megabits (millions of digital 1s and 0s) per inch or over a terabit (trillions of bits) per square inch.
“SKIN UP THE OLD BUILDING BLOCKS BABY.”
Skin is permeable to certain substances such as water and dissolved ions. It acts as a sensor to heat, to touch, and to sound. It is self-renewing. It also acts as a barrier to air from the outside and to biological fluids from the inside. Skin is a multicomponent dynamic smart material, showing some of the features that nanotechnology attempts to design into synthetic structures.
–Mark Ratner & Daniel Ratner. NANOTECHNOLOGY: A general introduction to the next BIG idea.
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