In the vast universe, the "Deep Space" is like a small boat, flying alone between two cantilevers... Countless distances are quickly spanned. This is a huge miracle that only science can bring.
Inside the spacecraft, the vast majority of people are sleeping peacefully, but a small number of people are continuing to struggle...
The research team led by Dr. Felix encountered the... biggest challenge in life!
Their research team has a total of sixteen people, including biologists and top physicists, all of whom have applied for long-term awakening quotas.
Of course, this "long-term awakening" does not mean that you are awake all the time, but that you can extend your working hours and avoid hibernation for a period of time.
As for the issue of lifespan, will they die earlier than others... These people never care about this!
In the laboratory, this group of mad scientists is already furious, and one calculation report after another is piling up.
Fortunately, everything is paperless now. If we use paper to measure it, it would be so dense that there is no place to stand.
Because they stayed up late for a long time, the eyes of these scientists were all bloodshot, and their skin was saggy and pale.
The health watch on their wrist was beeping to remind them that they needed to go back to bed immediately, but they were pressed mercilessly.
"The time is far from enough. In a few days, I will have to hibernate again. Alas..." A researcher suddenly shook his head and let out a long sigh. He grabbed a handful of hair randomly again and actually grabbed a few pieces.
root.
Their research group is eager to overcome the first line of defense of nanorobots...
Build the simplest robot - "Oxygen Transport Robot!"
That is to say, in places with high oxygen concentration, it will automatically absorb 1 billion oxygen molecules, and in places with low oxygen concentration, it will release this part of oxygen and transport away carbon dioxide.
It sounds like the function of this robot is very simple, somewhat similar to red blood cells.
But in actual practice, it is too difficult to fabricate a nanorobot that can transport oxygen out of thin air...
It’s so difficult…every aspect far exceeds their imagination!
First of all, the materials used are the most basic nanomaterials, not those materials in the macroscopic sense.
Nanorobots are so small that it is impossible to install any device for detecting oxygen concentration, and it is also difficult to install serious motors, gears, etc.
Even if these things are actually produced, they cannot be used.
Why, because the chip doesn’t work! Far from it!
This is the biggest headache for scientists during this period.
Silicon-based chips at this scale have reached their inherent limits due to their own limitations.
Even though people have developed chips the size of red blood cells, this silicon-based chip has limited computing power because the integration scale is too small, and it is impossible to control more complex components.
Moreover, its calculation speed cannot be improved.
Yes, it can’t be improved any more!
This is also the biggest obstacle currently encountered by nanoscience.
Without a powerful enough chip, it means that the nanorobot has no core... just like a cell without DNA.
As a result, the original mechanical dynamics, information coding and other subjects are all useless.
Moreover, this obstacle is difficult to overcome in theory, because such a small silicon-based chip has its own physical limit of computing power. Now, people are approaching this limit, but it is far from enough.
"Silicon-based chips are no longer suitable for this situation, and there is no solution. It is impossible for us to expand the scale of the circuit again, nor to refine it, otherwise the operation of electrons will be disordered on the quantum scale, causing errors.
"There are two ways now..."
"First, use quantum chips to replace silicon-based chips, but I think it is unlikely. Although the core of a quantum computer is small, it requires quite high stability, and it needs to be under superconducting, low-temperature and other conditions... This kind of
The conditions are far beyond what nanorobots can achieve."
Dr. Felix stood in front of the institute and said with a serious face. They were discussing issues in this area.
The other fifteen people were thinking with sullen faces.
People think of the problem too simply. Nanorobots do not mean that the original robots can be reduced to nanoscale.
Far from it!
Needless to say, there are material issues. For example, copper can exist stably under normal conditions, but nano-copper actually burns in oxygen... These problems are just minor problems.
It's just that the chip has shrunk so many times, Moore's Law has expired, and the computing power is completely insufficient.
This problem is a big problem...
"The second method completely overturns the previous machine structure! It can only rely on the most basic chemistry or physics to measure the oxygen concentration, and it can only rely on the most basic reactions to absorb and release oxygen."
"This method is similar to imitating... the structure of red blood cells! I think this method is more likely."
Dr. Felix sighed and continued: "Based on the nanorobot specimens we already have, which are specimens obtained during the war, we found that there are no chips inside. After the whole body is dissected, it feels a bit like biological cells.
So I speculate that the destroyer civilization used this method."
"Nature's miraculous craftsmanship is nothing more than this... To develop nanorobots, we still have to learn from nature."
Hearing this, another scientist said: "It seems that traditional mechanics, mechanics, and informatics can no longer be used. We must establish another set of dynamics... It's difficult! It's difficult!"
"Since the traditional chip can no longer be used... a new programming language must be developed. It can no longer be called a program, it is just a goal, similar to the goal of genes!"
"Only by setting such goals at the nanometer level can we get rid of the constraints of the chip. Nanorobots will have their own functions like biological cells."
Dr. Felix nodded and said: "Yes, this subject is called nanodynamics. Before we perfect this nanodynamics, it is impossible for us to create nanorobots. But this subject has already
It’s similar to…creating life!”
"This is also a similar conclusion left to us by the previous research group... Let's take a look at this part of the literature first."
Seeing the people who were deep in thought, Dr. Felix pointed to one of them: "First, we need to look for templates based on molecular dynamics and chemical dynamics. Our main idea is to use various nanodynamics templates to piece together the robot. And
The source of these templates still needs to be learned from biological cells...a long-term project!"
The other fifteen people nodded silently, already mentally prepared.
Even all scientists are ready.
If you don’t study it, you won’t know. Once you study it, this ultra-high complexity gives everyone a feeling that their intelligence has reached its limit.
The complexity of a nanorobot far exceeds that of "Deep Space"! If measured in atoms, it is billions or tens of billions of atoms!
"Deep Space" is so big, it can't have tens of billions of parts, but... nanorobots do!
Humans have indeed picked up the remaining nanorobots from aliens, but their structures are completely beyond people's understanding and are not traditional robot structures at all.
There is no way for humans to recover.
Nanodynamic templates are equivalent to assembling atoms and molecules into something slightly useful, similar to proteins in biology. These dynamic templates themselves have certain physical and chemical functions, which slightly simplifies the design.
step.
Otherwise, if we really use atoms to forcibly design it, it would really be impossible to complete it at human level.
After the discussion was completed, this research team began to work tirelessly to find the most basic nanodynamics template. They tried to leave more information to the researchers behind them before falling asleep next time.
For scientists, as long as there is a road ahead, they will go on unswervingly, no matter how complicated or difficult it is...
It would certainly be more satisfying if you wake up and find that your predecessors have left you with more knowledge.