GRAPHENE
Isaiah
46:1-10
Isaiah
46:5: “To whom will you compare Me or
count Me equal? To whom will you liken
Me that we may be compared?”
Resolve 2 B Blessed devotion showed that
God gives His kids free will. We use
that free will when God challenges us to decide for ourselves whom we will
serve, whom we adore most in all the world.
Who
do you love most? God is a jealous
God. He will not accept second place in
anyone’s heart. But God has also given
His kids unique gifts and passions to pursue.
These gifts are talents we use to work at various jobs.
These
gifts also enable us to serve God by helping people. The church also needs people to serve in many
ways: teaching, managing, answering phones or typing.
People
can get passionate about their work. Passion
drive people to excel in their chosen fields. Once in a while, a “miracle” is discovered. Physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin
Novoselov derived a substance from graphite, called graphene, at the University
of Manchester on October 22, 2004.
Graphene as a strongly crumpled sheet
on a silicon wafer viewed by scanning electron micrograph
Geim
wondered…is it possible to polish, or shave a graphite block down to 10-100
layers thick…then study its properties? The
best attempt his team achieved was 1,000 layers thick. Then Geim had an idea to use Scotch tape to
peel away the top layer. Flakes of
graphite adhered to the tape. The
process repeated many more times to achieve thin layers of flakes attached to
the tape. He dissolved the tape into a
liquid that eventually yielded ultra-thin layers of graphite just 10 layers
thick.
Further
refinements rolled out the first graphene sheets. “We fooled nature by first
making a three-dimensional material, which is graphite, and then pulling an
individual layer out of it,” said Geim.
Graphene
is a million times thinner than paper, stronger than a diamond, and more
conductive than copper. Graphene is
one atom thick—perhaps the thinnest material in the universe. It forms a high-quality crystal lattice, with
consistent properties throughout the structure.
Take Home Nugget
Danger
Andre Geim! When people are drawn
intensively into a project, attain wild success, then forget to thank God, God
is not impressed. If Andre Geim is so proud
of his own genius that he doesn’t give God the credit for his success, he
worships himself. Who gave Andre the
intellect to create something magnificently new and wonderful in the first
place?
When
someone or something becomes more important to us than God, we worship an
idol. Even if that idol is ourselves.
The TV show “American Idol” should
sound the alarm that we are dangerously close to substituting others and “things”
for worshipping God.
Adapted
from Our Daily Bread devotional
magazine. “Miracle Material.” Mart Dehaan.
July 23, 2015.
J.D. Griffith
Written
for http://www.Biblestudyforkids.com
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