[BRIEF NOTE] A Future Homeopathy
Feb. 22nd, 2006 01:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldThe problem with homeopathy is that there doesn't seem to be much of a way for substances diluted to infinitesimally small quantities to exert any noticeable effect on the human body, never mind the law of similars. Frankly, to me it sounds about as plausible as Maseru Emoto's thesis that thinking nice thoughts at water molecules will make them crystallize into perfectly symmetrical forms.
All this might change if nanotechnology came to full fruition. Imaging drinking a potion with a very few nanobots programmed to seek out and destroy (or, perhaps, transform) damaged human cells or invading viral and bacterial organisms. One wouldn't drink a huge quantity of these nanobots for the simple reason that they're too powerful--one might as well be a heroin addict injecting a huge quantity of pure heroin in one's veins.
The big if, of course, is the plausibility of such an advanced nanotechnology ever coming about. Still, it's an interesting thought.
All this might change if nanotechnology came to full fruition. Imaging drinking a potion with a very few nanobots programmed to seek out and destroy (or, perhaps, transform) damaged human cells or invading viral and bacterial organisms. One wouldn't drink a huge quantity of these nanobots for the simple reason that they're too powerful--one might as well be a heroin addict injecting a huge quantity of pure heroin in one's veins.
The big if, of course, is the plausibility of such an advanced nanotechnology ever coming about. Still, it's an interesting thought.
