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From: jwm@sun4.jhuapl.edu (James W. Meritt)
Newsgroups: sci.nanotech
Subject: Communications
Message-ID: <Apr.3.15.01.31.1991.25637@athos.rutgers.edu>
Date: 3 Apr 91 20:01:38 GMT
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How would nanomachines that are not in physical contact communicate at a
non-trivial baud rate?  Especially through a non-transparent media
(like, say, injected into the bloodstream)?

Jim Meritt

[With great difficulty.  Indeed, even without obscuring materials,
 it will be hard to use optical means in a device smaller than the 
 wavelength you're interested in.  It'd be like long-wave radio:
 no directionality at all.
 --JoSH]