Please email me off list if you would like a copy of a summary of the state of affairs in this field. I hesitate to post it because it is perhaps 4 pages long. I was unable to stop reading it once I began. Implications for the future of work and social processes are enormous, and both the article by Phyl Holz(2 pgs) and comments by Tom Atlee(2 pgs) cover these. Intro by Tom Atlee: Nanotechnology is the science of engineering and manufacturing machines, computers, robots, and self-replicating objects and substances at the atomic level, much smaller than we normally think of as "miniature." I had not realized how far this technology had come, nor the connection it has to the Brookhaven experiment (see the section below on strange matter and isotope collisions). After the article, I've added some further reflections about the nature of the hot pot we find ourselves in and which directions we might jump to get out. Steve
