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Chemistry / Re: Shrink ray or growth ray, how could they work?
« on: 07/12/2024 16:16:50 »What we have a real opportunity to do, is to change the di-electric or practical ε in the environment around the atoms.We might substitute other atoms or dopants but this won't merely alter the bulk size of our target, but its chemistry and physics - in other words you will be making a completely different object.
Consider a protein molecule surrounded by water. If you substitute liquid hydrogen sulfide for the water you might indeed cause the protein molecule to shrink, but the mouse that works by the interaction of proteins with water will cease to do so. Or to take a simpler example, changing the dopant of a semiconductor will alter the effective density of the electron cloud of the parent material, but p- and n-doped substrates have very different functions.
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