Nanopositioning Metrology, Gödel, and Bootstraps

This article would be better without the opening two paragraphs about Godel's Theorem. They're just fluff, and much of what they say is wrong.

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Insanity 30 minutes ago | parent [-]

When they claimed "Gödel’s findings may seem rather obvious" that kinda put me off of the article. Obvious to whom? It wasn't obvious at the time and I'm sure _most_ people haven't even heard or thought about the problem before.

	▲	pdonis 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe the wrong version of Godel's findings that the article states seemed obvious to the author. Lots of complex questions have simple, obvious wrong answers.

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philipkglass 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If you found this interesting and are a non-expert, I recommend browsing Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy by Wayne Moore (1970):

https://archive.org/details/Foundations_of_Mechanical_Accura...

Manufacturing got down to nanometer precision starting with macroscopic precision visible to the naked eyeball.