You heard it here first, here at Che-lives.com folks. News that is simply AMAZING...
Link to news story: World's smallest silicon mechanical devices are made at Cornell, Smallest guitar, about the size of a human blood cell
The world's smallest guitar is 10 micrometers long -- about the size of a single cell -- with six strings each about 50 nanometers, or 100 atoms, wide.
The guitar has six strings, each string about 50 nanometers wide, the width of about 100 atoms. If plucked -- by an atomic force microscope, for example -- the strings would resonate, but at inaudible frequencies.
First off I think it is simply freaking amazing time we live in, because at some point the creation of a current life size guitar was beyond us. But to make one this small, beyond my comprehension and for it to work and to have an object available that could pluck these strings, is beyond anything I could imagine.
The size of a human blood cell. I could inject somebody with 1,000,000 tiny guitars and it wouldn't even effect them or it might, I have no idea but the fact remains I COULD DO IT.
"I know we can go smaller than this. The question is how small we can go and still have dependable and measurable mechanical properties. That is one of the things we would like to know," Craighead said. "We are nearing the technological limit where it gets harder to get smaller than this."
How can they go smaller? Quarks?
Oh and BTW is the strings on this going to be used for "String Theory" hehehehe Small nano universe/quantum universe joke for all you out there. I'm here all week....
