OA Home Search SiteMap Encyclopaedia Galactica Intro Timeline Sophonts Topics Extras Galactography

Home  > Topics  > Knowledge Base  > Tech  > Scale/Density  > Hypofemtotech

Hypofemtotech





Hypofemtotech - Data Panel

Definition: Technology on the sub-femtometer scale - working with quantum waveforms, quarks, supersymmetry, superstrings and supermembranes

A few alternative terms: Clarketech (even when not applicable), Godtech

Level: Godtech

Substrate: quantum and sub-quantum fields

Application: mostly only used by archailects.

Distribution and Availability: Hypofemtotech artifacts are exceedingly rare, and can fetch astronomical prices in some polities

Legal Status: So rare that it requires special rulings

Environmental Requirements: Most hypofemto requires specific conditions to function

Ease of Use; Care and Maintenance: Hypofemto cannot be debugged, reverse engineered, or maintained by even middle to high level transapients without specific higher toposophic assistance

Popular With: wealthy sapient and transapient collectors, polity governments, etc

Comments: Macroscale devices based on hypofemtotech principles are typically clarketechian in nature. They are rare but highly prized. Generally the archai try to keep this sort of technology out of baseline hands. Occasionally a subsingularity (sapient level) sophont will acquire such a device, but this happens far more often in pop-virch fantasy-adventure interactives than in reality.




Creative Commons License
Unless otherwise specified,
this work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.


feedback


content by M.Alan Kazlev and Anders Sandberg
main graphic by Keith Wigdor
other graphics by bernd helfert
page uploaded 4 July 2000, last modified 26 December 2007