Working at the atomic scale has other advantages.

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For example, the distance between the centers of two black holes in galaxy clusters distant from each other and the gap between cell walls in a living organism differ on a vast scale, despite their sharing of common structures at the atomic level.

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His goal is to create molecules unknown to nature but adept at serving humans by absorbing environmental toxins, fighting cancer or extending Moore's Law down to the atomic scale.

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