Ray Kurzweil and What elements could exotic baryons create?

[Maximum7]

I was reading the Exotic baryons page on Wikipedia and a cited source said that Ray Kurzweil, renowned Futurist said that at the end of the 21st century, we could use femtotechnology to create new chemical elements from exotic baryons that could create a new periodic table of elements. Here is the wiki page.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic_baryon

The source is cited to be Kurzweils work The Age of Spirituals Machines but I checked the book and it barely mentions femtotechnology. I can’t find anything else online about it and I was wondering.

What new chemical elements could this create? Stuff like neutronium and collapsium?

 

[phinds]

What new chemical elements could this create?

None, most likely. He's a wild eyed optimist some of the time. Last I recall he still expects to live forever by making it for the next several years by taking something like 100 diet supplements and other pills until there's medicine that will cure any ailment he gets.

EDII: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/magazine/ray-kurzweil-says-were-going-to-live-forever.html

That's from 2013 but I don't know that he's changed his mind.

 

[member 656954]

What new chemical elements could this create? Stuff like neutronium and collapsium?

While femtotechnology is great for sci-fi stories, creating new elements of the kind our stories suggest might not be feasible due to atomic behavior (and possibly Kurzweil did not suggest this either, as you note, @Maximum7, the citation is not directly linked to him proposing this) but there are definitely some way out ideas proposed assuming we can ever reach that level of technology!