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Re: The holy grail of nano technology, assemble structures from the atom up!!!
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Originally Posted by kanuck
I'm curious about how this may affect the world. I think a replicator will still need particles to be of some use, but where will it take them from? Will it use the gases of our atmosphere? You can't create something from nothing, can you?
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A replicator will have to have a supply of raw materials, at the very least in the form of the basic elements comprising the object to replicated. In the "Star Trek" universe the replicator made things out of raw energy from the matter antimatter reactor, I guess in form of photons. I doubt anything approaching this well ever be built.
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