"We simply went down another floor to one of the basements of creation and it turns out that it will change our lives" says Peres, who wants to establish a fund worth hundreds of millions of dollars that will put Israel on the map in this field
MK Shimon Peres is currently working to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for a new fund that will invest in nanotechnology. Peres tries to raise the funds from international Jewish bodies, and receives the support of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who backs his actions.
Peres added that in his opinion the focus should be on investments in nanotechnology, as it is a new dimension that will change the face of the world. According to him, the investments in nanotechnology will be made from the interest payments on the fund, and in case of success the amount will be returned, with the yield that will be credited to it. According to Peres, there are already about 250 researchers in the field of nanotechnology in Israel today, although the amount of money invested in it amounts to a few million dollars.
Nanotechnology is a new scientific concept of controlling the most basic level of matter - the atom - and it can be applied in a very wide range of fields: from biology, through building engineering, military systems, fashion and private consumption.
In a special conversation with the scientist website, Peres said: "We have now discovered a new level of matter - nanotechnology. We simply went down another floor into one of the basements of creation and it turns out that it will change our lives, because until now everything we have done has been done from visible things when the world is built from invisible things. This world contains greater wealth than new metals, new strategies, new sciences and also economy in quantity, in energy. The possibility to penetrate places we could not penetrate before."
"Nanotechnology is the positive part of the nuclear bomb. In a nuclear bomb, two hemispheres collide at breakneck speed and then suddenly high energy is released. A nuclear bomb that weighs seven kilograms can destroy an entire world.
"Why does this happen, because it causes a chain collision between atoms that have a fixed order. If you can make a combination of atoms in an orderly way, you can also acquire tremendous building power. In order to collide, you don't need to see the atom, it's enough to imagine it. To build you also need to control it. Three or four years ago, they managed to build microscopes that would allow viewing it and discovered that it is a cell full of power and capable of indescribable changes and flexibility, and that is why they are now starting to investigate."
This gives a tremendous potential, for example the metal of the atom a hundred times stronger than steel needs the hundredth part of the energy to build it. For example, you can build a tank out of foil, cars out of foil. It is possible to minimize in an incredible way - a computer the size of a pinhead. The entire Hebrew encyclopedia on a pin. in a grain of dust.
You can create invisible engines. Robots which is the 800th part of a human hair. This robot can enter the human body without having to open the body. He can tour the human body and fix many things. It can deal with cancer cells. It also makes it possible to connect biology with electronics. One of the studies talks about artificial body parts such as an amputated hand that will be activated by the body's nervous system. New textiles can be made that will regulate heat and cold automatically - warming you when it's cold and cooling you when it's hot. The computers will also report the blood flow, pulse speed. Any malfunction in the body.
How long will it take until these things are opened? Isn't this basic science?
There are already some things that are on the verge of being used. We can reach a situation where there will be armies without soldiers. Everything will be so tiny. Also the field of robots that will be inside the human body. Some things are already starting to come into use. In the field of chips - nano, which is the billionth part of a meter, the smallest unit created so far is one hundred nanometers. Intel has now developed a chip that works at 70 nm. When they get to one nano, you won't see the chip except with a highly sophisticated microscope. can reach invisible devices. A computer the size of a butterfly that will be more powerful than today's computers. They are working on it all over the world and I want Israel to enter it as soon as possible and with the greatest momentum."
Is it practical?
"45 years ago I started with the atomic reactor. Everyone laughed at me, 'Such a small country, who needs it?' But if we hadn't entered then, we would never have entered. There were scientists who refused to cooperate and now I want to bring the new technology to your attention. It may reach its peak in 15 years, but it is already beginning. There are already several factories in Israel developing nanotechnology. For example, there is one factory that produces a cloth that is placed on the chest and substances are injected from it into the body instead of being injected. It can have many uses, for example to save on dialysis, it is possible to stimulate the blood stream. There is the issue of friction that can be solved with the help of nanotechnology. Today, the entire industry does not rely on scale, but rather on innovation, and those who want to profit must innovate, therefore we should not count the number of factories but the number of patents."
And yet there will be those who say it is science fiction. Isn't it so?
"The Dimona reactor was science fiction, the aerospace industry was science fiction. Everything we did then were fictional industries and today they are the center and heart of the country."
