Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!world!decwrl!apple!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!nanotech From: sam@geac.com (Sam Wong) Newsgroups: sci.nanotech Subject: Quantum Mechanics & Nanotechnology Message-ID: Date: 17 Sep 90 18:53:33 GMT Sender: nanotech@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 15 Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu The March 1989 issue of Science (Vol 243, pp 1325-1330), there is an article, "Hydrogen Tunnelling in Enzyme Reactions" by Yuan Cha, Christopher J Murray, and Judith P Klinman. I am neither a biochemist nor a physicist, but if quantum mechanics do play a significant role in biochemical reactions, what are the implications for the assemblers required in nanotechnology? [It seems to me that the implications are mainly for the *design* of assemblers, particularly that simulators will have to be a lot more sophistocated than they are. I should point out that simulators do not now generally handle bond formation, so we knew that there was work to be done! --JoSH]