{"id":172905,"date":"2023-09-27T11:24:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T16:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hugo-de-garis-innovating-beyond-the-nanoscale-femtometer-scale-technology"},"modified":"2023-09-27T11:24:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T16:24:29","slug":"hugo-de-garis-innovating-beyond-the-nanoscale-femtometer-scale-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hugo-de-garis-innovating-beyond-the-nanoscale-femtometer-scale-technology","title":{"rendered":"Hugo de Garis \u2014 Innovating Beyond the Nanoscale, Femtometer Scale Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Qit7CkV-b4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Femtotech: Computing at the femtometer scale using quarks and gluons.<br \/> How the properties of quarks and gluons can be used (in principle) to perform computation at the femtometer (10^\u221215 meter) scale.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been thinking on and off for two decades about the possibility of a femtotech. Now that nanotech is well established, and well funded, I feel that the time is right to start thinking about the possibility of a femtotech.<\/p>\n<p>You may ask, \u201cWhat about picotech?\u201d \u2014 technology at the picometer (10-12m) scale. The simple answer to this question is that nature provides nothing at the picometer scale. An atom is about 10\u201310 m in size.<\/p>\n<p>The next smallest thing in nature is the nucleus, which is about 100,000 times smaller, i.e., 10\u201315 m in size \u2014 a femtometer, or \u201cfermi.\u201d A nucleus is composed of protons and neutrons (i.e., \u201cnucleons\u201d), which we now know are composed of 3 quarks, which are bound (\u201cglued\u201d) together by massless (photon-like) particles called \u201cgluons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hence if one wanted to start thinking about a possible femtotech, one would probably need to start looking at how quarks and gluons behave, and see if these behaviors might be manipulated in such a way as to create a technology, i.e., computation and engineering (building stuff).<\/p>\n<p>In this essay, I concentrate on the computation side, since my background is in computer science. Before I started ARCing (After Retirement Careering), I was a computer science professor who gave himself zero chance of getting a grant from conservative NSF or military funders in the U.S. to speculate on the possibilities of a femtotech. But now that I\u2019m no longer a \u201cwager,\u201d I\u2019m free to do what I like, and can join the billion strong \u201carmy\u201d of ARCers, to pursue my own passions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hugo-de-garis-innovating-beyond-the-nanoscale-femtometer-scale-technology\">Continue reading \u201cHugo de Garis \u2014 Innovating Beyond the Nanoscale, Femtometer Scale Technology\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Femtotech: Computing at the femtometer scale using quarks and gluons. How the properties of quarks and gluons can be used (in principle) to perform computation at the femtometer (10^\u221215 meter) scale. I\u2019ve been thinking on and off for two decades about the possibility of a femtotech. Now that nanotech is well established, and well funded, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,9,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-military","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}