Jimmy Higgins
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Well, it is about time television technology got the nod from the Nobel Prize committee. Quantum Dots are all the rage and the creators (or the people credited creating them) won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Quantum dots are small. How small? Well from the article...
Size of quantum dots. 1.5 to 10 nm in size. Being an American, I had no idea what that meant. bilby informed me that is the equivalent how much smaller a football is than the entire Earth. Damn Aussies.
So I did a little more searching. A pixel on a tv screen is 0.26 mm. Now while that 0.26 mm looks similar to the 1.5 nm to 10 nm, literally just one n short, after four hours of searching on line, I found out that 1 mm = 1,000,000 nm! Apparently those n's are huge! I can only imagine the value if you flip it upside down. After creating a spreadsheet I was able to determine that 1 pixel = 260,000 nm. 260,000 is a much bigger number than 1.5 or 10, and according to a mathematician who told me to stop calling them, as well as all the numbers in between 1.5 and 10. This makes a quantum dot, to quote the paper cited above "fucking small".
What does this mean? Well, nothing for you, you can't afford a television that utilizes this technology, nor do we have the capability to actually film to such a resolution, nor have the biological capacity to actual resolve such resolution!
So why is it important? Well, science stuff, like you know, nano-stuff. This creates a whole new range of plot devices for Hollywood to completely mess up. That alone is worth $20 or so billion in to the national economy... $35 billion when including international sales.
Where do we go from here? Well, with dots on the scale of 1.5 to 10 nm, it is going to be hard to split it down even further, so the only place left to go is the opposite direction. Expect scientists to try to create megadots. Dots so large they are bigger in proportion of the Earth compared to a soccer ball.
I love living in the future!
Well, it is about time television technology got the nod from the Nobel Prize committee. Quantum Dots are all the rage and the creators (or the people credited creating them) won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Quantum dots are small. How small? Well from the article...
Yeah, not very helpful there WashPo. What is with journalism and anything remotely related to science?article said:So how small are the particles? Consider how much smaller a soccer ball is than the entire Earth. Quantum dots are that much smaller than the soccer ball.
Size of quantum dots. 1.5 to 10 nm in size. Being an American, I had no idea what that meant. bilby informed me that is the equivalent how much smaller a football is than the entire Earth. Damn Aussies.
So I did a little more searching. A pixel on a tv screen is 0.26 mm. Now while that 0.26 mm looks similar to the 1.5 nm to 10 nm, literally just one n short, after four hours of searching on line, I found out that 1 mm = 1,000,000 nm! Apparently those n's are huge! I can only imagine the value if you flip it upside down. After creating a spreadsheet I was able to determine that 1 pixel = 260,000 nm. 260,000 is a much bigger number than 1.5 or 10, and according to a mathematician who told me to stop calling them, as well as all the numbers in between 1.5 and 10. This makes a quantum dot, to quote the paper cited above "fucking small".
Incredible!Paper said:We were able to fit more quantum dots on the tip of pin than we could angels, and with a lot less dying angels!
What does this mean? Well, nothing for you, you can't afford a television that utilizes this technology, nor do we have the capability to actually film to such a resolution, nor have the biological capacity to actual resolve such resolution!
So why is it important? Well, science stuff, like you know, nano-stuff. This creates a whole new range of plot devices for Hollywood to completely mess up. That alone is worth $20 or so billion in to the national economy... $35 billion when including international sales.
Where do we go from here? Well, with dots on the scale of 1.5 to 10 nm, it is going to be hard to split it down even further, so the only place left to go is the opposite direction. Expect scientists to try to create megadots. Dots so large they are bigger in proportion of the Earth compared to a soccer ball.
I love living in the future!