My supervisor at my Romance publisher (and wife’s ex-) sent me a link to an article about a new nanotech product which so completely repels water that it would make a fantastic detergent and water repellant. http://www.zmescience.com/science/nanote...y-14112011
He wondered, however, if this product, slated to come to market soon, might be dangerous.
This got me looking up information about safety studies and regulations of nanoproducts for him (there are none in the USA other than Berkeley CA), and then generally reading about oversized carbon molecules, such as buckminsterfullerene (Buckey balls, or C60), the first such molecule discovered. As it happens, this one actually appears naturally (in soot, and detected in starlight).
Looking at a ball-and-stick model of buckminsterfullerene, and its soccer-ball shape (right down to the correct number of pentagons vis-à-vis the number of hexagons), I was left wondering about a derivation of Einstein's quote: “Does God play soccer with the Universe, and if so, does he support Man United, or Arsenal?”
James, on the Left side of Nebraska.
When encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption. – Matthew Simpson
"Be ye not lost amongst Precept of Order." - Book of Uterus, 1:5, "Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her."
