Scientists stuffed Bible on supersmall chip
Researchers in Israel say they have succeeded in putting a version of the Bible on a chip smaller than a pinhead. Its 300,000 words in Hebrew were inscribed on a silicon surface at the Haifa Institute of Technology. Scientists say the aim of the project is to increase young people’s interest in nanoscience and nanotechnology. The record for the smallest copy is held by a Bible measuring 2.8×3.4×1cm (1.1×1.3×0.4in), weighing 11.75g (0.4 ounces) and containing 1,514 pages. The 0.5sq-mm (0.01sq-in) nano-Bible was written on a silicon surface covered with a thin layer of gold (20nanometres thick – 0.0002mm).
It was written using a device called Focused Ion Beam (Fib). “When we send the particle beam toward a point on the surface, the gold atoms bounce off of this point, thus exposing the silicon layer underneath,” Ohad Zohar, one of the project’s managers at Technion, said. “By sending a particle beam towards various points on the substrate, we can etch any pattern of points, especially one that represents text.” The next step for Technion researchers is photographing the Bible and displaying it on a giant wall within the Faculty of Physics.
Source: BBC
Comments(77)
1st haha looks like the old micro dot lsd yummy merry xmas all
Just one question….
Why would anyone bother?
Awesome, I think I’ll start going to church again and pray every night to make god help me becoming a scientist working on nanotechnology
stuff it up there arse
for me
Thats pretty cool. I am still waiting for my government grant so i can start producing the Quran on toilet paper. Charmin refuses to cooperate with me.
Meh. I’m not impressed until we make computer chips packed with so much information and intelligence that they are small as our own DNA strands.
Fabulous, these new micro-bibles will make it much easier for the religious regime to infect the masses with. They can simply be injected into non-believers shortly after birth to save their souls.
*cough*
They should create several more documnting the amount of money YUKOs shareholders have stolen from Russia and deposited in Israel.
You can have this in smaller ways like digitally DUH! and read it w/o so much hassle as having it under a microscope always if u want to read it. 2 words i have to say: Useless effort.
LOL! @ 8
ooooooooooohhhhh, they put a story on a dot, wow!!
the world is such a better place now…
why not put ‘3 little pigs’ or ‘little red riding hood’, they are stories too
Wasn’t not FIB’ing one of the ten commandments?
@5 Roflcer of the Lawl
U and other people like u doesn’t deserve a life , u came from nowhere and starting to mock on people.
Filthy life you are living at.
“(…)Scientists say the aim of the project is to increase young people’s interest in nanoscience and nanotechnology.”
Yeah brilliant, cause there is nothing that sparks the interests of a youth quite as much as 2000 year old fairy tales….
hint dear scientists, next time, do a nano pr0n image
@14 well obviously they want young people, who are already interested in nano-tech, via form films, to be interested in the bible.
And wtf?
“The next step for Technion researchers is photographing the Bible and displaying it on a giant wall within the Faculty of Physics”
The physicists there can’t possibly believe the bible. I mean if there serious about their professions.
No offense to any else.
It’s just that the Big Bang theory makes much more sense then the “great” creationism theory.
If you say “what was there before the big bang?”
I say what was there before “God.”
And if you say, “there was nothing but God,”
I’ll say “There was nothing before the big bang, it was a point in space infinite in time and would forever existed, well until the big bang.”
@15
completely agree with you
god is a creation of man, not the other way round
@4 – stuff that to arse. lol thats the first thing i think of lol – btw wont be a pain to
As a religeous man I have to say im very very happy that this has been done! Its so vitally important to make people remember what this time of year is all about, without the bible i would not get any christmas pressents!! oh and something about god.
Rev. Mathews
“…Scientists say the aim of the project is to increase young people’s interest in nanoscience and nanotechnology…”
So they printed a copy of the Bible onto a nanochip? Good job. I’m sure they’ve peaked the interest of every “young person” on the planet with that one.
Incidentally, it is pretty cool.
JESUS H CHRIST!!!
@ 18 This time of year is about money and credit cards i have no time for little baby jesus 3 mingin wise men and a slapper.I do get santa claus but only when the wife gets the costume out.But genrally christmas is about cash and spending lots of it baby jesus is for all you daft christians wine and beer is for me.This micro dot thing would have been better dipped in lsd that way the bible might make more sence to those who take it.If i had a bible id probably use it as bog roll as the local tesco is a little busy with people buying turkeys and dead animals for dinner.
I think it’s a waste of time,not that anyone can read this fairy tale anyway.
You people are so funny with your anti-religion phobia’s. You’re so blinded by them that you didn’t even understand that the point in this article is not the bible, but the fact they’re technologically able to put such a long book on such a small… thing.
btw, I’m anti-religious as well, but its important to keep your eyes and mind open, or you just become as bad as they are.
They’re taking the Gutenberg route, from the looks of it. Would be more beneficial to catalog the world’s knowledge at the time and preserve it, than print out something as psychologically and socially damaging as a religious text, though.
From the people who killed Christ. Blah.
I wish that all of you hateful atheists had to work on Christmas.
Yep tecnology is great in the last 20yrs or so they have made these really long things that you put batterys in they do the hoky poky you give’em to your missus and bobs your uncle you can get 30 mins peeeece.Or how about the preists really long thing they stick them in the youngest of places these days.Religion is crap its all just chocolate hostages.I do like thie idea of shoving things on tiny micro dots tho coz say you could put like 30 films on 1 micro dot dip it in lsd and trip to mary poppins and the water babys i can’t wait for that day.
@25 – Got to be the most unitelligent comment I’ve ever seen, considering the bible was written for over 500 years, at the time “Christ” was supposedly born.
I do work on christmas im a bouncer i chuck out all you christians coz you cany hold yer drink i bet jesus was like that was he not an arab by the way coz i can picture him with an AK47 same for mohammed and his army of 300 wives now 300 wives thats my kinda christmas present i just hope somebody gives me some ear plugs haha.
I don’t think they wanted to spark anyones interest in the bible,
its against their religion to try to convert people
In that Bible you can read about how Christ was born from a virgin. And you can celebrate that on Christmas.
But your parents will tell you that Santa Claus isn’t real. Shouldn’t you be asking for the whole truth? I say the real “lie” isn’t Santa. It’s saying that someone was born from a virgin. It’s BS. It has never happened, and never will.
If you really believe someone was immaculately conceived.. why can’t you believe a fat man in a red suit flies around in the sky with reindeer? Is it really that different?
Just one question.
How is this related to releases?
Even if they are able to write their rubbish on an atom surface, why would I be interested?
This site is becoming more and more propaganda for Israel.
@5
Hahaha, I am also waiting for an approval to put your words on a toilet paper.
Any link. I know the source is BBC but i like to see the link.
Dumb idea that as seen by the comments here most people with any logic have grown up and realized the Bible and all religious tomes for that matter are the work of man.
Saying its against religion to try and convert people is stupid – its why the fear of death resulted in a heaven being created so we wouldn’t all go insane and of course hell so we would all behave and of course live in fear.
Every time I read something like this where the bible has been recorder on a nats balls or something to prove scientists are clever or trying to placate the religious cults by bunging the Bible on this and that.
Is it supposed to make us feel good that some crappy book has been recorded for all time on some bit of crap…
record it on something that we can throw away or that wears out and dissapears so that humanity can get a clue one day.
Christmas of course has nothing to to with Christianity as it was pagan holiday stolen by the Church cos some heathens were having to much fun and not paying for the new roof.
The Bible in this context is the size of a book that people can relate too and nothing more..why not the complete works of Shakespear or every episode of Stargate Sg1?
And before any god botherers say its not THE GOOD BOOK even if it says so on the cover – its a book of rules made up by man that are archaic and basically say..do as God tells you or he`ll kick your ass.
Theres nothing good about that its just fear mongering.
Please mister clever scientist person stop giving these religious zealots the reach around and do something useful..
rant over back to Xmas..
@26
I’m sure you don’t believe in santa but you believe in god?, right? in case of you know but both are kinda the same, they never existed…
I’m sure if religions never existed our world would have 200years of technological advance by now… and must less wars overall…
#32 it’s Tech News section. Technology. You know.
#28 It’s from Israelis aka Jews. The “people” who killed Christ. You took it too literally.
nice one skeev,
the red & white santa wears
comes from magic mushrooms
the pagans used to take.
anyway is it hd or blu ray?
“Scientists stuffed Bible on supersmall chip.”
Now keep it that way
Merry Chrismas.
Well how useless is that a bible on a dot.
Ooh i aplaude you now swallow it!
Bible pills your textual injection of religious mumbo jumbo.
@36 No really, I didn’t. The people who killed him were the Romans, aka roman empire, aka italians, aka christians, aka where your pope lives. You people keep forgetting THAT ^^.
No Body Killed Jesus ( Issa ) peace be upon Him
a lot of people purposly forget that
and to any one who denies religions and god, i say go and create a living thing from nothing then come here
sorry but we, non-believers, feel better worshiping real values than some greedy institution that has quite a few genocides on its back… middle age was Catholicism’s “ye-ye” years..
@41
so god created dinosaurs?
seriously…wtf?
what’s the point of putting a bible on such a small chip?
it’s not that anyone’s going to READ it…and what is a bible good for if no one can read it? babels I guess…hehe
anyways…don’t really think the time/effort/money put into that project is worth it…that’s all….
(just my random rants…)
I know it’s been said, but it must be say again. The purpose of this article was to inform us that something really long was written on something so small that it could be lost in a second if a small breeze went by.
For some reason this all ended up as a rant against religion. If this were a thread in a forum, I’d lock this and ban almost all of you for being so goddamn off topic.
Think before you comment.
(And of course, Merry Christmas)
@41 actually it is possible to create a living thing out of (almost) nothing, have you ever heard of the “Primordial Soup Theory” go check it out
but yeah most people are missing the point here, the just choose the bible, they could chose anything else, this is about the technology itself and not the book
@36
I know it is technology. But tell me how will this information be of any use?
If AMD released a new line of processors or Google has a security hole that threats our accounts, then yes this will be useful.
But the Bible in a chip!!!
I like this. It’s not particularly useful (then again, it’s not like the Bluray release of Transformers is going to change the world), but it’s still really cool.
cool, nanotechnology just like nanosuit in Crysis
maximum armor
maximum strengh
maximum speed
btw i just checked Crysis website
it has picture with Nomad wearing santa’s hat
MAXIMUM CHRISTMAS
Coming to a baby’s brain – the new biblechip from the vatican.. if they cant convert you through words they will convert you through brain bible chips.. override command – Execute Code:JESUS CHRIST.
@Humbug
The man Jesus, messiah of the Christian faith, was killed by Roman soldiers. Please consult WORLDWIDE COMMONLY KNOWN FACTS before making an idiot out of yourself on the internet. Ta.
@ 51
Jesus was killed by the Jews. Consult WORLDWIDE COMMONLY KNOWN FACTS. The sneaky cowardly Jews wanted to kill Jesus as he was threatening their money making racket, but were too cowardly to do it themselves so created a situation that forced the Romans to apply their laws. Plus the Romans offered to free Jesus but the Jews agitated for Barabus to be freed instead. So it’s Jews that are responsible for even if they didn’t actually carry out the execution, they agitated for it and did all the could so it could happen.
Would have been fun to be there when mary told joseph she was pregnant with jesus.
Even more funny because it wasn’t him that got her pregnant, it was an angel. Man I bet he was pissed off at the angel :O
@41
remember in chemistry (or even before that) when you learned the law of conservation of mass – matter cannot be created or destroyed
well i guess that rules out making something, let alone a LIVING thing, out of nothing
it is simply impossible and religion is a bunch of BS, and you could see this if a scientist and a priest ever went head to head and talked about how the earth and mankind came to be (guess who would win)
and this article is just about putting something that big on something so small, and i think that is really cool but they should choose something else like the dictionary
@52 I have an idea, let us all hate ~13 million of people or so for their alleged participation in the death of an literary character. Damn bastards are begging for it.
@all:
replace “israel” with “fiji”
replace “bible” with “all tolstoy’s books”
what do you get? 2 comments, mostly “how is this a warez release?”
but just mention israel / u get bashed.
u people are f@#$ed up. get a life.
Amazingly tolerant bunch in this thread.
The Bible has been chosen as a vehicle for displaying technological prowess in printing/manufacturing historically. Why? Because it was and is considered an important tome in people’s lives they could relate to, including the amount of text it contained. It was a known quantity. Now it is used as the subject for the sake of tradition as well.
One doesn’t have to like or believe in the Bible to recognize technological achievements, for which this article was actually about. One does have to be tolerant or well-mannered, though, to not spew hate and bigotry.
I hope RSLog posts the photos of the chip’s contents to be taken in the future.
That’s ironic…Promoting science through bible. That makes me gag.
I stuffed the whole bible in my super large azz.. now thats a place it belongs since its covered with crap anyway
can they fit halo 3 on a chip that size? now that would be a special feat….
Why would one put the bible in the faculty of physics? That’s like putting Dr.Seuss on the wall of the faculty of chemistry.
I hear that the planned photography and displaying of the chip has been postponed indefinitely. Apparently one of the researchers sneezed while looking at the chip and they’ve been unable to find it.
so the scientist who did this is jewish!!! big deal!!!
some guys here are sick
i can! i eat a bowl of cereal then leave it in my room for a month, VOILA! LIFE!!!
PWN’D BICH!
rlsog forums = racist zionist jews
err what do i do with it? why dont they make use of their time killing more arabs?
If they’d done it with the whole back catalogue of Playboy they would have accomplished their mission!
@66
“Kay” maybe you dream a lot about arabs kicking your as s
why don’t you go yourself gag
To all you bible-bashers. Keep your anti-biblical-ism to yourself. Just because you can’t control yourself from expressing your personal hatred and bigotry on a board that isn’t about the bible, doesn’t give you the right to attack people’s personal values and beliefs.
atheist’s are the most cowardly people iv’e ever met, and most unethically.(the one iv’e seen at least.)
well i dont blame them, but still, without examine everything, they decides in an absolute manner, that there is no GOD.
and call believers “stupid’s” “primitive’s” and all the other nonsense, that other people put in their head.
let’s try something here.
let’s say that god dosn’t exist, and religious are all lie, me and someone called athiest, live our lives.
now if i die, and he is right, i’m dead, becoming dust, end of the road.
but if i’m right and god does exist, i’m goin to a better place and he is goin to hell.
eiter way i have 50% chance than he has.
couse if he is right or wrong, it dosn’t matter, he is still doomed.
so statistically, i’m a sure winner.
@wah
“(..)doesn’t give you the right to attack people’s personal values and beliefs..()”
sure it does. I respect people but their values and beliefs are fair game. When I see harmful values, mindsets or beliefs like religion, racism or discrimination I sincerely feel the need to point it out. Even if it might hurt the recipients feelings
@R1pper: That is called pascal’s wager – and your reasoning is seriously flawed. Follow the wiki link to learn why:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal’s_Wager#Criticisms
@Jambo
No, not when you’re dealing with well-respected religions like Christianity, Judaism, Islam or Buddhism, where a country considers those values generally AS common family values. It may give you the right to harshly criticize or assertively admonish them but not attack.
In my opinion, the only reason Christianity is more respected in comparison to, let’s say, Scientology is because it was developed 2000 years ago. Wait a thousand of years or so and you’ll have scientologists’ Supreme Being (or whatever it’s called) being considered as sacred as any other central figure of any other religion.
That being said, I really don’t want to sound offensive. I have nothing against personal beliefs but I got really tired of people constantly trying to shove them down my throat this year. Merry Christmas.
to jambo, thank you for the link, good reading.
if anyone wanna read, this is more accurate link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager
Scientology? You’re kidding right? They don’t even have one single book that is comparable to the Bible or Qu’ran.
I think you missed a “0″ when converting nanometres into milimetres…(0.00002 mm ).
@76-Lex
lol for a moment i thought you are offtopic
seeing all those off topics comments.