Vacuum Industry

So yeah. Steve Jobs is dead, and although he was a great business man, founder of a multi-bilionare company; Comparing him to Newton, putting him above Tesla, saying that he changed the world, or revere him as if he was some sort of deity i.s. j.u.s.t. t.o.o. m.u.c.h....jezzz

Aaaanywhore, I had an a idea, long ago, about using my background preparation to go into the vacuum business. As plain as that.

Im not sure why should I talk about that, but I its been a while since I posted anything here, anything at all. And in spite of having on my repertoir a great bunch of other ideas (nobel price, here I come!...yeahhh right...pfff) Im still polishing the edges, and thinking about the details. This Vacuum Industry idea, seems to be short, and a good introduction to the rest of the blogs that are about to come. And in a sense, the Vacuum Industry idea is complete.

So, what is vacuum? Well philosophically, vacuum has always been consider to be an empty space, empty of all kinds of matter. In a more sophisticated way, a space where no molecules have left inside, no subatomic particles, no quarks, no EM radiation, no nothing. Of course, this turned out to be quite a challenge as I will explain later.

Why would anybody wanted to create vacuum? Yeah, this could have been a tough one a couple of years ago. To be honest, this is what I can think of.:

This is a very old painting, it depicts probably one of the earliest uses of vacuum chambers. The picture illustrates a biologist who proved that air is essential to life, by pumping out  the air in a glass bottle with a dove inside. After the dove dies, and everybody cries uncontrollably for the poor dove (like Steve Jobs non-blood-related deluded customers), he proofs his idea to be right.

The vacuum, as defined before, has never been achieved. Ideally, the pressure inside a chamber  in perfect vacuum, would be equal to 0. However, nowadays we know that the vast interplanetary regions have more or less 10 molecules per cm3, the interstellar regions 1 molecule per cm3, and the intergalactic regions 10^-6 molecules per cm3 (wikipedia). This means, that not even these far away regions exists in total vacuum.

Vacuum has some very useful characteristics. Vacuum chambers, and more precisely vacuum pumps, are widely used in almost every type of industry. With the growth of nanotechnologies, the necessity to evacuate impurities from the working space has become part of the routine. New technologies, like nuclear fusion, are very sensitive to impurities. These impurities appear even after the chamber has been evacuated, the reason is that the walls release, spontaneously, molecules to the medium. This rate of ''evaporation'' occurs all the time, with any material, under any circumstance. However, inside a fusion reactor, the temperature, the neutron bombardment, and the possible disruptions inside tokamaks can accelerate this process, making it a significant challenge for industry to stop it.

And why would I like to go into it? Well I designed a vacuum pump when I was 12 (one of my most productive years scientifically speaking, no kidding!) and I have been intrigued by these mechanisms since then. One of the most boring class on my past Master program, Vacuum technologies, was full of amazing new concepts (and boring descriptions of them). I didn't like the professor, but I love the patents. Its really amazing how advanced is the vacuum industry!.

But, what do I have to offer to this industry? is it just a teenage fixation? have I really though this through? .....Well, no. (If you thought this post couldn't get any more boring...you were wrong) I don't have any revolutionary concepts that could change or revolutionize that industry. But come on, like my Dad says: you shouldn't fall in love with the goal, but with the road. I think vacuum industry is an exciting challenging field, I wouldn't mind making a living out of it. It would be a great job for me!, and eventually, if the timing is right, a good revolutionary vacuum mechanism wouldn't hurt anybody...would it?.

Now, I haven't decided it yet, right now my concern is about this master degree. We will talk about this again, but not yet.

Im in the arena of life now, I gotta earn my way up.

Fight!