UNIVERSAL CONSTRUCTOR BASED SPACESHIP – ALERT!

Google search the words UNIVERSAL CONSTRUCTOR BASED SPACESHIP and up will pop Conway’s wonderful site where first reports are in on the reality of this wonderful creature, err… sorry, I meant creation – wonderful for all the intimations of things yet to come… ?

FREE ENTERPRISE LIVES!
In regard the irrelevance of religiosity in this matter, where wonder and awe suffice – I myself was inspired enough by these last two alone to go as far as to do some work on the topic of my own! In fact, I am noting the date of this and of a prior comment (I presume you may have read) as corroborating evidence for the dating of the invention on a patent in which I propose to use this self-healing capability. Had the description been too boring I might not have read it, then no flash of insight and possible new patent!

The phenomenon (self-healing holes) is not alive, most true! The reaction is not particularly unusual at this scale or unexpected – What this inanimate phenomenon shares with the animate wonder of life is its refusal to remain inanimate like good inanimate matter should (so we like to think at our macro-scale of seeing the world). Watching life is fun because it moves on its own, watching these holes is fun because they close and move on their own.

In this is the same wonder of standing motionless staring intensely at a caterpillar on its travail – this is something the common man can “grok” in the vernacular popularized by the science-fiction prophet, Robert Heinlein.

Metaphor and Science and Self-healing and Religion, Ewe!

Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!

ADULT TOY ELECTRON MICROSCOPES?
I have friends with electron microscopes they’ve fixed-up and play with, flying about mini-universes that hold this same wonder for them of exploring caves deep below, cavernous and never before seen by human eye – In short… Even in hard science, especially, one wishes to encourage the holding of objects in ones hand, even a rock, and staring at it for long periods of time without being subject to public ridicule, criticism and catcalls. Not that this has ever happened to me, personally, of course !

ITS ALIVE!
Some say the universe is alive, if so… then this would be one of the many interesting places one would wish to look in the hope of getting a glimpse of how it all works. Peekaboo says the universe, here a hole, there a hole, no more hole! What hole! Where’s the hole? Funny universe!

This term, without further in depth thought by the reader, implies it is alive and/or that it is an amazing power imbued by God and shows that we are wrong in such and such a belief. This is at best anthropomorphism applied to Carbon and at worst a misunderstanding of what is happening.

It is not alive. This is a reaction. It is like crystallization. If you keep feeding a crystallizing solution the raw material under the right conditions it will just keep making crystals. Crystals are not alive.

This is an awesome discovery that carbon can do this in this way. It is not a miracle. It does not add nor take away from arguments for or against Darwinism or Creationism or Intelligent design.

It is simply beautiful science. A more complete understanding of existence through theorization, observation and adjustment of what we knew. We now know Carbon does this and we can use this knowledge to further ourselves. That is what is nifty here.

What is it that we innately sense in this, one of nature’s many wonders?

The newest of the super material is made of atoms and yet displays characteristics we reserve for things that are “alive.” Perhaps we sense a core, crude, simple as can be characteristic of life? Is this a beautiful example of a basic characteristic of life’s displayed in an ideal, basic, primal, elegant way?

Sci-Fi Supersuper-short Story and short Existence (long title)

Societies construct ever larger contiguous sheets of magical graphene as a matter of pure economic sensibility, and eventually, as inevitably as when programmed in a computer simulation – a form of electronic carbon-based life comes into existence… is this the source of the all-surrounding deafening silence we endure? We will soon know – no way around it.