light is the secret determinant of History: AtD

[Mark Kohut]

New Scientist Magazine...............subscription needed (I do not have one)...................
 
Put a whole sentence or two directly into Google as written and see if someone had quoted the whole thing on a blog or in another article....
 
All I 'get' is that at the nano level, light is as weird as, well. one of Pynchon's metaphors.

--- On Sat, 6/28/08, Brock Vond <wilsonistrey at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Brock Vond <wilsonistrey at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: light is the secret determinant of History: AtD
To: markekohut at yahoo.com
Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Date: Saturday, June 28, 2008, 2:57 PM



Hey Mark - 


Could you point me to the original source please... very interesting and I'm curious to see exactly how far over my head this info flies... 


Thx.
B




On Jun 28, 2008, at 8:40 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:






HENRI LEZEC has a problem. He has been trying to use the tiny pressure exerted by light to move miniscule mechanical components. A light-powered micromachine could have all sorts of uses but Lezec, a photonics researcher at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, hasn't had much luck getting them to work. Frustratingly, the components keep sticking to the optical fibre that is beaming light at them. 




      
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