Nano-Shock

* See also Alternate Alternates
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Nano-Shock !!! :
Nano-technology might help to explain something with the strange powers of Big Daddies.  In the realms of Science Fiction, 'nano-bots' (molecular sized robots - or at least machines) could possibly build a city with power stations, factories, railways, etc.  Such a city might be the size of a postage stamp and full of nano-bots could quickly rebuild new cities in nano-time.  Whole generations of nano-bots and their cities might be created and die in a human second.
These cities would then produce what is required, e.g. a computer chip, a tea cup, or whatever is needed.  To the human eye the item might appear instantly because of the effect of nano-time (or  not).
Columbia - only at the end you find out that Elizabeth, Booker, Comstock, etc.. are all just single-celled organisms (seen through the delusional anthropomorphistic vision of a Splicer looking in  a microscope at Fontaine Futuristics) and are living in their floating nano-city on a mote of dust  (something that could pretty much float by itself, instead of that fairy dust quantum bullshit).
Usually nano-tech robots are very simple and it takes different kinds to do a sequence of operations  to get more complex things built.  They generally have to be guided by something at a higher level  that contains the required complex 'plan' pattern, and is capable of directing placement markers  where the nano-bots do the work.  They also have to be powered - somehow being fueled similarly to  body tissue (like blood glucose and oxygen from hemoglobin) since that is the environment they are  present in.  Practical nano-tech robots would be many times the size of their 'theoretical' versions,  because they would have to have various redundant support systems and defenses against ordinary  environmental factors that would gum them up or quickly disrupt their function.
'Out of Control', such concepts just become another Story Crutch (but at least its not 'god' creating crap like Infinite BS had.
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The technology and science behind ADAM and Big Daddies is not fully explained, and we can only speculate about how it all actually works.   ADAM Technology is a form of biological nano-science.   Instead of using man-made nano-bots, ADAM science uses naturally occurring biological mechanisms and viruses (virus-bots) and complex genetic chemicals found in a particular Sea-Slug.   Plasmids and  Tonics could be explained through molecular/physiological biology as well as through psychology as  explained previously.
Within reason, ADAM could modify a human to have many additional abilities. Taking it beyond that (seemingly what some of the Plasmids/Tonics in the game showed) you get into some kind of Psionically-enabled (mental) Super-Powers, which are physiologically impossible and pure fantasy.
Since the Plasmid/Tonics are supposed to do very complex things to cells genetically (mentioned way  above) they might be used for certain operations, but would not be usable for others (hence the talk  of tailored viruses which have naturally optimized structure to do some the needed functions).
'Nanobots' (or an assortment of them) might be useful to clean up various by-products of the cell changes, before the body negatively reacts massively to them as contaminants.  Time delay  encapsulations exist as an engineered technology today to 'time release' the different constituents  of a multi-phased Plasmid/Tonic process.
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The Quick Change thing ('Slotted' Plasmids we can immediately change, or change around via a Gene Bank) may be only a perception.  We are not conscious of turning around briefly to put down one weapon and picking up another - to us its virtually instant.   In the game, we are either an Alpha Big Daddy or a  mind-conditioned (or ADAM warped) Human, so possibly we just don't consciously notice that we pull a  wheelbarrow along behind us with all the stuff needed to 'change' genetically.  Similarly, Plasmids  take TIME to shift, and we just don't pay attention while the time goes by, while the completely  different tissue structure in hand or brain or whatever reshapes itself for the new function.
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WE MIGHT Have to watch for ideas like this because : Many of these Plasmid things might largely be a delusion, and we really have device objects held in our hands that do the actual effect and at a different speed than we think.
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