Nanopositioning Metrology, Gödel, and Bootstraps

2 comments

• pdonis 1 hour ago
  This article would be better without the opening two paragraphs about Godel's Theorem. They're just fluff, and much of what they say is wrong.
• philipkglass 1 hour ago
  If you found this interesting and are a non-expert, I recommend browsing Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy by Wayne Moore (1970):

  https://archive.org/details/Foundations_of_Mechanical_Accura...

  Manufacturing got down to nanometer precision starting with macroscopic precision visible to the naked eyeball.