In the gift given to the Pope, the "nano-Bible" is glued on a platform made of transparent Plexiglas, at a height of one centimeter. And in the lower part, a 10,000-fold magnification of verses XNUMX-XNUMX in chapter XNUMX of the book "Genesis" as photographed using a scanning electron microscope
The President of the country, Shimon Peres, will today present Pope Benedict XVI with a "nano-Bible" the size of a grain of sand that was carved in the Technion. The doctoral student Ohad Zohar managed to upload A complete and dotted version of the Bible in Hebrew on an area of 0.5 square millimeters - much less than the area of a pin head.
The Nano Bible was written as part of an educational program developed at the Russell Berry Nanotechnology Institute, a program that aims to increase young people's interest in nanoscience and nanotechnology. The head of the Nanotechnology Institute, Prof. Uri Sion, came up with the idea of writing the entire Bible on an area as small as the head of a pin. The project was managed by Ohad Zohar, the scientific advisor of the institute for educational programs in the nano field and a PhD student in physics. The Bible was written at the Zisafel Center for Nanoelectronics using a scientific device called a Focused Ion Beam. With this device it is possible to launch a focused beam of tiny particles (gallium ions) towards a given object. When the particles hit the bone, they spray atoms from it and thus incise it. This is similar to digging a hole in the ground using a water jet from an irrigation hose.
The nano-Bible is engraved on a silicon surface coated with a thin layer of gold 20 nanometers thick. "When we launch the beam of particles towards a point on the surface, the gold atoms are splashed from that point, thus exposing the silicon substrate underneath. The diameter of the exposed spot is about 30 nm. When we look at the written sample using a scanning electron microscope, the spot of exposed silicon appears darker than the surrounding gold. By sending the particle beam towards different points on the surface of the substrate, we can engrave some pattern of dots, and in particular a pattern representing text", explains Ohad Zohar.
The nano-Bible template was created by special software developed as part of the project, which allows any text to be engraved on the surface of the substrate.
The nano-Bible project is part of an educational program that poses the following question: "How small can the Bible be?" The program uses this intriguing question to explore modern methods for creating tiny templates, to present advanced technologies for high-density information storage, and to discuss futuristic issues such as information storage in DNA molecules or other biomolecules.
"The fact that the Bible contains a lot of information, about 10 million bits, is central. We know many ideas for high-density information storage, but almost always the attempt to apply these ideas to a large amount of information reveals new challenges and ultimately leads to a deeper understanding of the proposed method and its limitations," say the Technion researchers.
In the gift given to the Pope, the "nano-Bible" is glued on a platform made of transparent Plexiglas, at a height of one centimeter. It is located on a printed board, the upper part of which contains a technical explanation, in Hebrew and English, and in the lower part, a 10,000-fold magnification of verses XNUMX-XNUMX in chapter XNUMX of the book "Genesis" as photographed using a scanning electron microscope.
The entire surface is contained in a glass box, in the upper part of which a magnifying glass is embedded. The box is in a wooden frame bound in a leather binding in the style of an ancient Bible book. On the right side of it appears the dedication of the president of the country to the Pope.
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Now, imagine that in the Vatican library they want to read the book and find an error...
We will see you fix something like this.
For the 2nd… go branch off “some” gunpowder you might be the next messiah/pope…
For 3... America's bomb didn't kill them but made them "a little" smarter... 😉
It reminds me of a joke, half funny, I heard once.
Well, it happened, it was like this:
Make a global, international competition, which country will manage to create the thinnest metal rod. The Germans claimed that they were the winners and showed the jury the thin axis they created. The judges marveled at his slender stature
of the rod, however, just before the Germans were announced as the winners of the competition, the Japanese asked for the thin rod for examination. Not long after, the Japanese returned the pole to the jury after drilling a hole in it and turning it into a pipe....
Ha ha ha…
Point go drink the blue ball
The size of the intellect is the size of the sword