The working principle of a molecular washing
machine is extremely simple: what we want to wash is
decomposed into single molecules, the molecules of dirt are
separated and removed, the clean molecules are recomposed
into an object that was to be washed. We do prefer the word
decompose to the
word break
for it suggests an action far more gentle than breaking,
besides, what can be decomposed can be recomposed while
what has been broken is broken – well, it can be put
together again, but it won’t be the same, and the action
of breaking is just brutal and disgusting. This is why we don’t speak and
write about tearing apart, smashing and mashing, grinding,
crashing. Such terms are repelling and
discouraging. It’s
acceptable to say and write reduce to prime
factors, however not
indicating what these prime factors are in case of a
jumper, shoe, bag, bicycle or vehicle. If these mysterious
factors make clients deeply suspicious or bring too
many associations with annihilation, we can replace the
prime factors with the secondary or tertiary ones.
The given examples of things
washed are not sheer fantasy. MWM can wash everything. Even this text. As well as
all other texts. The whole Liberland can be washed with no
problem. The text would be decomposed into single letters,
letters into strokes, loops, bowls, stems, ears, bars,
ogoneks... and these
prime factors into
dots and lines. Dots
and lines will not be decomposed because they can be
decomposed only into dots and lines which makes no sense.
MWM has neither a specific
shape nor size. It has no shape and no size at all. We
assume it can take a shape of a thing that is being
washed. MWM is, first of all, a process which sometimes,
quite rarely, manifests as something similar to a Remoska,
although not round – the term amoeboidal Remoska will not be
unjustified.
At the end we should tackle the
problem of efficiency and reliability. MWM is not an
efficient device for it is not a device. Unless we assume
a process is a device, or a device can be a process. MWM
is extremely efficient process and, to some extent,
absolutely reliable. It means: decomposing is reliable and
absolute. There are no things that can’t be decomposed.
However recomposing is not absolutely reliable. It can
happen MWM can give us back something else than we put into it. This doesn’t happen often,
but it does. And this is what should be improved. But be
careful. A bit of
uncertainty and madness can be useful. A lottery can
always find its lovers. As well as gambling and risky affairs. It can happen that a wrongly recomposed thing can turn out to be the one we have always been
dreaming of. And such possibility can not be eliminated.