Comments on: Manipulating atoms one at a time with an electron beam https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/05/manipulating-atoms-one-at-a-time-with-an-electron-beam Safeguarding Humanity Fri, 17 May 2019 20:51:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: flashgordon https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/05/manipulating-atoms-one-at-a-time-with-an-electron-beam#comment-370714 Fri, 17 May 2019 20:51:11 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/05/manipulating-atoms-one-at-a-time-with-an-electron-beam#comment-370714 This isn’t exactly reliable; it’s electron beam soccer; not “electron beam takes hold of an atom and moves it to a new position, and performs chemistry.”

I can’t imagine making some molecularly precise nano-object, much less a space rocket with these electron beam soccer games.

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