Israelis create Bible smaller than a pinhead
Pastor Dale Morgan
Israelis create Bible smaller than a pinhead*
By Our Foreign Staff
Last Updated: 3:06am GMT 19/12/2007
Israeli scientists yesterday said they had created the world's smallest
Hebrew Bible, fitting the book on to a gold-coated silicon chip smaller
than a pinhead.
The scientists were able to pack the 308,428 words onto a surface
smaller than a pinhead
Scientists at Technion, Israel's Institute of Technology, were able to
pack the 308,428 words of what Christians refer to as the Old Testament
on to a 0.5mm square of silicon by etching its surface with particle beams.
"The Guinness Book of World Records has a Bible 50 times bigger," said
Ohad Zohar, who directed the project. He said he now wanted to take
pictures of the nano-Bible and blow it up to a seven-by-seven metre
poster, which will make it "possible to read the entire bible with the
naked eye".
The tiny Bible was developed as part of an educational drive to increase
interest in nanoscience among teenagers.