JERUSALEM – Israeli scientists said yesterday they have created the world’s smallest Bible, fitting a Hebrew-language version of the holy book on a gold-coated silicon chip smaller than a pinhead.<\/p>\n
Researchers from Technion, Israel’s Institute of Technology, were able to pack the 308,428-word Hebrew Bible — known to most as the Old Testament — on a 0.5 millimetre square, Ohad Zohar, who directed the project, told AFP.<\/p>\n
“This is the world’s tiniest Bible,” Zohar said. “The Guinness Book of World Records has a Bible 50 times bigger.”<\/p>\n
The scientists managed their feat by sending focused beams of tiny particles, called gallium ions, onto the surface of the silicon chip.<\/p>\n
“By sending a particle beam towards various points on the substrate, we can etch any pattern of points, especially one that represents text,” said Zohar, a physics doctoral student.<\/p>\n
The nano-Bible was developed by the Haifa-based institute as part of an educational programme aimed at increasing interest in nanoscience among teenagers.<\/p>\n
The scientists now want to take pictures of the miniature 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,” he said.<\/p>\n
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