Quote of the century (so far)...
Feb. 28th, 2005 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helen99"I would like to have a yoctite army. We just can't tell much about what's there at that size. We only detect their vibrations and such, we can't actually see them. Which is why they're all considered to have a size of 0.. But I still want my yoctite colony.. (such a thing could either be incredibly useful, or not useful at all, I'm not sure which). I'd take care of it anyways.. it would be like a pet."
A yoctite would be a quadrillionth the size of a nanite, which itself is constructed atom-by-atom. A nanite is made (in length) of somewhere between 100 and 10,000 atoms. It would take somewhere around 10 quadrillion or so yoctites to make up the length of an atom. (I forget exactly, but I had it worked out at some point.. I think a yoctite would actually escape all natural forces of the universe except for weak forces, which we're not sure what they are.)
Wellp, as pets go, I must admit this appears to be on the low-maintenance end. So yeah. A yoctite colony it is, then.
A yoctite would be a quadrillionth the size of a nanite, which itself is constructed atom-by-atom. A nanite is made (in length) of somewhere between 100 and 10,000 atoms. It would take somewhere around 10 quadrillion or so yoctites to make up the length of an atom. (I forget exactly, but I had it worked out at some point.. I think a yoctite would actually escape all natural forces of the universe except for weak forces, which we're not sure what they are.)
Wellp, as pets go, I must admit this appears to be on the low-maintenance end. So yeah. A yoctite colony it is, then.