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The entire vowelled-Hebrew text of the Bible has been inscribed by Technion scientists on a gold-coated silicon surface smaller than the head of a pin.

This is not an attempt to make the holy book more portable, but an exercise meant to arouse public interest in nanotechnology. It was part of an educational program developed at the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute at Haifa's Technion-Israel Institute of Technology aimed especially at young people.

The idea to inscribe the whole biblical text using a focussed-ion device was that of Prof. Uri Sivan, director of the Berrie Institute, and the project was carried out by Ohad Zohar, the center's physics education adviser, along with Dr. Alex Lahav, formerly lab director of the Wolfson Center for Microelectronics.

The device shoots gallium ions toward a solid object, causing atoms to erode and thus creating an inscription, the way holes are formed in the ground when a rubber hose splashes water on it with great force.

When the ions are shot at the surface, gold ions are removed from a 20-nanometer-wide spot to expose the darker silicon substrate underneath. A nanometer is equal to one billionth of meter or one millionth of a millimeter. The resulting letters can be observed only with a scanning electron microscope.

The nano-Bible was produced at the Technion with a special computer program that can create any text on a tiny surface.

The question of "How small can the Bible be?" is really about the larger question of how to store data in a very small space. In the future, nanotechnology experts hope to inscribe data on DNA or other bio-molecules.

The fact that the Bible contains a large amount of text - about 10 million bits - was a major factor in choosing to store it at high density on silicon, the researchers said. "The nano-Bible project was aimed at displaying the miniaturization ability we have," said Sivan.

The nano-Bible will be photographed and expanded 10,000 times, and still be able to fit into a seven-by-seven-meter frame, to be hung in the Technion's physics faculty. The photograph will make it possible to read the entire Bible with the naked eye, and the height of each letter will be three millimeters.

Zohar said the original nano-Bible, the size of a crystal of sugar, would be displayed next to the photograph.
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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1196847361890&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

Pretty ****ing cool.
 
This is not an attempt to make the holy book more portable, but an exercise meant to arouse public interest in nanotechnology
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more like an attempt to piss off fundamental christians
 
I bet scientists like nanotechnology becouse then they can say:

"Its not that small! Just look at this."




:p
 
Cool.

Nanotech still disturbs the shit out of me though.
 
It doesn't scare me because I don't understand it :LOL:
 
Wow, what a huge waste of time. Why not create something thats going to be useful?
 
is it an inscription of actual letters or does it inscribe it with some sort of binary, off/on representation?
 
Still interesting.

Maybe manufacture all weapons grade uranium to have stuffs written on their parts lul
 
It's all part of the Apocalypse. Ironic that they used the bible to showcase this technology.

It's the eventual conclusion of the government writing serial numbers into the retina of our eyes.

I do not choose to believe or not to believe this. I'm just saying what some people will say - years before the time. I am an oracle. The oracle of doom.
 
Que-Ever said:
Oh, lol. Anti-religious, I gather! Jolly good.
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Its not that. Its just that this serves no useful purpose. You can't use it. You need special equipment to read it.

It just seems a waste. Its cool, but pointless.
 
Atomic_Piggy said:
Its not that. Its just that this serves no useful purpose. You can't use it. You need special equipment to read it.

It just seems a waste. Its cool, but pointless.
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Phailure.
The purpose it serves is to showcase just how small they can engrave something. They are creating a buzz, which equals investment dollars and gets people thinking of new applications for the technology.

They put all the text of the bible the size of a pin head. Nobody would know it is there. it could be like a secret document or other info hidden.

Engraved on your forehead you could write failure 400 billion times and you probably wouldn't see it.
 
VirusType2 said:
Phailure.
The purpose it serves is to showcase just how small they can engrave something. They are creating a buzz, which equals investment dollars and gets people thinking of new applications for the technology.

They put all the text of the bible the size of a pin head. Nobody would know it is there. it could be like a secret document or other info hidden.

Engraved on your forehead you could write failure 400 billion times and you probably wouldn't see it.
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You can also put huge amounts of binary data on extremely small devices- easily detectable and readable, as opposed to requiring an electron microscope to scan a HUGE surface for text.
 
Well the thing with that is, in stead of a letter taking up X space, you have several binary digits taking up more space.

A alone is: 100001.

Or are you talking about recording it electronically? Because an electronic storage device that small would be damn cool.
 
that is just plain wrong in my opinion. why the hell would you want to print one of the most evil/brainwashing/murderous/lying fairy tale book on such high technology?!

religion and science should be placed far, far apart from each other. they just don't mix.

i find it really hard to believe how such smart people can still buy into that shit.
 
jverne said:
that is just plain wrong in my opinion. why the hell would you want to print one of the most evil/brainwashing/murderous/lying fairy tale book on such high technology?!

religion and science should be placed far, far apart from each other. they just don't mix.

i find it really hard to believe how such smart people can still buy into that shit.
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They told you because it was long.


Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, don't make this another religion thread.
 
I think they should have used a dictionary instead. Although I don't have a problem with it either way, it did raise an eyebrow. o_O
 
This is not an attempt to make the holy book more portable, but an exercise meant to arouse public interest in nanotechnology.
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Strange idea. I thought the basic concept was that something is more arousing when it's bigger.
 
Cheomesh said:
Or are you talking about recording it electronically? Because an electronic storage device that small would be damn cool.
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Yeah this is what I meant. I mean, how freaking difficult must be to find the text under an electron microscope.

It's like looking for a pin in a desert.
 
Couldn't they have printed a better book?
 
That's pretty cool. It'll be fun to see in the future what we can do with it D:
 
how about the entire encyclopedia Britannica ?...believing the used the bible because of its length is just sand in the eyes. ok, i don't hate jews or anything, but Judaism has a weird connection with science...they excel in military and other non biological branches. it seems that their murderous religion has some built in systems to allow this.

ohh...and you can't deny that scripturally judaism isn't one of the most blood thirsty religion out there.
 
jverne said:
ok, i don't hate jews or anything, but Judaism has a weird connection with science...they excel in military and other non biological branches. it seems that their murderous religion has some built in systems to allow this.

ohh...and you can't deny that scripturally judaism isn't one of the most blood thirsty religion out there.
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BEHOLD! Fun for the whole family! Until they profess interest in secularism and you are forced to stone them.

http://www.thebricktestament.com/the_law/index.html
 
I guess it goes to show how insignificant a religious book is compared to the universe.
 
jverne said:
i got owned...damn :bounce:

think how the jews should feel compared to that :cheese:
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I don't understand. I don't know any blood thirsty Jews TBH.


awkward.


Some vampires believe that Jesus was a vampire.

Lets see...

Rose from the dead. Check.

Drink from the cup at church... The blood of Christ. Drinking blood - check.

...

Oh you want more? You'll have to look elsewhere.
 
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