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There's Plenty Of Room At The Bottom - Richard Feynman

“Plenty Of Room At The Bottom”
a lecture by
Richard Feynman

I felt it necessary to include this post for rather sentimental reasons. As I recall, my very first Google search was looking for this article by my favorite physicist Richard Feynman, with the title: There’s Plenty Of Room At The Bottom. It was this paper that served as the basis for a lecture given by Feynman at Caltech to a meeting of the American Physical Society, originally presented on December 29, 1959. When this video was made some 25 years later, Feynman still considered the direct manipulation of individual atoms not only possible, but believed it to be a form of synthetic chemistry, allowing the fabrication of extremely small mechanical devices.

This talk drew little public attention for many years, as even Feynman was unable to spark the conceptual beginnings of what eventually became an entirely new field of science. It wasn’t until much later in the 1990s, when this paper was rediscovered, researchers recognized Feynman’s keen technological insight, inspiring a new field of investigation into a vast, but as of yet unforeseen development in our modern world: The creation of Nanotechnology, and all those infinitely tiny possibilities that arrived along with it.

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