just scrape some soot out of a chimney or the container of a poorly burning candle. soot is formed when there is no oxygen present (otherwise it would have completely burned) and the carbon atoms bond with each other. This is almost identical to the use of high current and two sticks of carbon in an inert gas, just the source of the free carbon differs.
You are right, the standard buckyball has 60 carbon atoms and can have more in certain stable configurations. If carbon atoms are removed (from the 60 atom structure) the stability of the molecule rabidly decreases. The silicon cage that this article talks about has only 12 silicon atoms and very little in common with a buckyball.
I know that researchers have also been able to trap atoms inside of buckyballs for quite some time, even the larger noble gases. What I would like to know is how the silicon cage in the article compares to a buckyball with a xenon atom trapped inside of it for use as a quibit.
I think I would wait for the bug fixes just in case at the singularity the computers start designing their *predecessors* instead. I don't want to live out my existance as a PDP-11 or even a vacuum tube machine...
There are a couple of ways to deal with that problem, but the easiest would be to require the user to wire the house with a GPS antenna. The device could simply refuse to work if it couldn't find a GPS signal.
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just scrape some soot out of a chimney or the container of a poorly burning candle. soot is formed when there is no oxygen present (otherwise it would have completely burned) and the carbon atoms bond with each other. This is almost identical to the use of high current and two sticks of carbon in an inert gas, just the source of the free carbon differs.
You are right, the standard buckyball has 60 carbon atoms and can have more in certain stable configurations. If carbon atoms are removed (from the 60 atom structure) the stability of the molecule rabidly decreases. The silicon cage that this article talks about has only 12 silicon atoms and very little in common with a buckyball.
I know that researchers have also been able to trap atoms inside of buckyballs for quite some time, even the larger noble gases. What I would like to know is how the silicon cage in the article compares to a buckyball with a xenon atom trapped inside of it for use as a quibit.
I think I would wait for the bug fixes just in case at the singularity the computers start designing their *predecessors* instead. I don't want to live out my existance as a PDP-11 or even a vacuum tube machine...
There are a couple of ways to deal with that problem, but the easiest would be to require the user to wire the house with a GPS antenna. The device could simply refuse to work if it couldn't find a GPS signal.