There S Plenty Of Room At The Bottom Predictions

This paper is a pleasure to read and it is not hard to imagine that the knowledge and practices now called nanotechnology are a fulfillment of feynman s vision.

There s plenty of room at the bottom predictions.

There s plenty of room at the bottom. Although versions of the talk were reprinted in a few popular magazines it went largely unnoticed and did not inspire the concept. But what really caught my attention was a fascinating chapter that is entitled there s plenty of room at the bottom a republication of a famous talk that feynman gave to the american physical society on dec. Much of the improvement in computer performance comes from decades of miniaturization of computer components a trend that was foreseen by the nobel prize winning physicist richard feynman in his 1959 address there s plenty of room at the bottom to the american physical society.

Feynman considered the possibility of direct manipulation of individual atoms as a more powerful form of synthetic chemistry than those used at the time. 50 years ago eminent physicist richard feynman gave a gave a prophetic speech at caltech entitled there s plenty of room at the bottom the speech described a rich world of possibilities that could arise if we only applied ourselves toward controlling matter on smaller and smaller scales. Feynman s classic talk there s plenty of room at the bottom remains a stellar example of physics prognostications that not only came mostly true but in some cases exceeded expectations. An invitation to enter a new field of physics was a lecture given by physicist richard feynman at the annual american physical society meeting at caltech on december 29 1959.

In the talk feynman expounds on the possibilities of miniaturization decades ahead of his time but uncannily prescient. There s plenty of room at the bottom. This is the transcript of the classic talk that richard feynman gave on december 29th 1959 at the annual meeting of the american physical society at caltech and was first published in the february 1960 issue of caltech s engineering and science. I imagine experimental physicists must often look with envy at men like kamerlingh onnes who discovered a field like low temperature which seems to be bottomless and in which one can go down.

Feynman then a professor of theoretical physics at caltech was among the attendees and he delivered an after dinner lecture at the nearby huntington sheraton hotel entitled there s plenty of room at the bottom the banquet speech would prove prescient.