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wadavis comments on Open thread, 14-20 July 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: David_Gerard 14 July 2014 11:16AM

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Comment author: wadavis 14 July 2014 11:04:04PM 2 points [-]

It is just the current state of technology that only one usable material exists (no fact checking has been done), Given time a wide variety of eligible materials will be developed with appropriate properties. This is nothing special, just the endless advance of science in materials engineering.