New York – Researchers in Israel say they have succeeded in putting a version of the torah on a chip smaller than a pinhead.
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Its 300,000 words in Hebrew were inscribed on a silicon surface at the Haifa Institute of Technology.
Scientists say the aim of the project is to increase young people’s interest in nanoscience and nanotechnology. [bbc]
daily daf 9:00 PM Now we might[possibly] understand when that [pre] convert asked SHAMAI to teach him the TORAH while standing on one foot. Maybe he had a TORAH-CHIP.
i guess this is the true meaning of having *shas on my finger tips*
Simchas torah should be a blast. Now those bitter o;d men who can’t dance will not get all agitated when someone actually gets leibidik.
Now i understand why the Gedolim are so Anti scientists. Our holy torah is smaller then a grain of salt.
now we can understand when our sages say that the aron kodesh did not take up any place in the kodesh kodoshim
soon torah chips with a hechsher, birchas hamazon included.
There 300,000 and change letters, not words. Hagba is easier just as long as you don’t have to also lift the one ton electron microscope that is necessary to read them.
Doesn’t the sofer get eyestrain?
This will make hagba much easier.
Amazing! Could this chip be implanted under one’s skin to be scanned and read I wonder? What will be done with this Torah chip?