| Nearly anything can be done to the atomic structure, you just need to design a process. If you built the metal one atom at a time you would miss out on all the best tricks of conventional processing. Think of it this way... if i tried to build a sculpture with one of these toys: 
adding one star at a time, the stars wouldn't stay where I put them. Instead, they would snap to the lowest energy region in the local magnetic solution space. In the end the bits would do what THEY wanted, not what I wanted. But if we instead start with a pile of these bits, and sculpt them like clay, we'd have success easily. This analogy is applicable in explaining internal strains, dislocation strengthening, etc. Thay are all artifacts on the atoms being processed together, not individually, and are responsible for many of the properties modern man relies on. If there IS a devine creator, this would suggest he wants us all to work together. ;)
 

Daily driving a TT is like ordering your favorite pizza for breakfast lunch and dinner. It's not healthy and eventually you will lose the magic of the meal. Sometimes you just have to have some meatloaf. My new meatloaf.... 1994 Black Honda Civic DX :D what? It looks a little stumpy, but fits great in the hand! (n/m) - ZEngineer 12/12/06 |