The nanoworld

"So are nanos manmade? " I asked the student demonstator at the science olympiad "nanodays". The demonstations were set up for the arriving olympiads to further feed their scientific knowledge so they wouldn't have to grow up like me and ask if nanos are manmade.

"Well Nanotechnology is a process not a thing."
"I understand that but it is technology using nanos, right? Well do you create nanos or are they just here? "
"I need to get my professor, " she said. Maybe she was a cosmetology major filling in for her physics major friend. Or maybe she didn't know that there really are stupid questions.

The professor shook his head."Nanos are looking at things at the smallest level."
" But do you make nanos or are they already here waiting to be observed? "

Honestly, I am still a little fuzzy on Nanos, even after he explained. I think nanos are just really small molecules and certain materials or combinations of materials are made up of nanos. Really smart people can use those tiny little nanos to do tasks that only very small things can do, like squeeze through the dog door when you have locked yourself out of the house.

But the salient part about nanos for me was even though we can't see them, they can be harnessed to do very amazing things. As my helicopter and trebuchet teams go forth to their events today, they will be relying on hard work, effort, and skill. But they also will be drawing on the strength of something unseen. Something much bigger than nanos.

Romans 1:20 NIV

For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

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