Talk:Programmable matter

message: Weanhall (talk) 05:13, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

message: The use of the term moduli in the opening sentence appears to me a case of a five dollar word when a two-bit or no word at all would be as good. Simplicity, clarity etc make for good writing. From my dictionary the definition of moduli is:
1 another term for absolute value .
-- the positive square root of the sum of the squares of the real and imaginary parts of a complex number.
2 a constant factor or ratio.
--a constant indicating the relation between a physical effect and the force producing it.
3 a number used as a divisor for considering numbers in sets, numbers being considered congruent when giving the same remainder when divided by a particular modulus.
So there are simpler words we could substitute while increasing clarity and simplicity, and we can avoid appearing like word snobs.
I would like to suggest "value" or "state" but really this is a word that means nothing in this context since it is a word that is a catch-all for words that might more usefully deployed. Those used already and others like color, electrical charge, reflectivity, opacity, magnetism, etc.
FQ1513 (talk) 05:47, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: A modulus is some measure of stiffness of a material, in materials research. I don't think this is a bad or incorrect use of the word. ThunderPumpkin (talk) 19:00, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Obfuscation

message: What would it be to have a machine or mechanism of some sort that could replicate individual molecules of whatever type in whatever number by a fixed input and a simplified, standardized resource? In contrast to manually formulated chemistry which requires unique incremental steps each differing at every instance, to rather have a technologically automated nano-methodology. Has this been investigated in theory as viable prior to the level of inventing matter that is itself programmable? Has such an idea for a process have a name? Nagelfar (talk) 10:57, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Check out molecular nanotechnology and related articles.  The concept has been around for a while, but there have been heated debates about whether this sort of thing is physically possible at all.  Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs) 06:03, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Building molecules that are not in themselves 'programmable' by means programmable. 

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