Nanotechnology has the prospect to vibrate the imagination of human being and has the ability to be used in almost every sector of human need. With its limitless potentials, there are many environmental, health and safety related concerns due to extremely ambivalent effects of nanoparticles. Studies revealed that nanoparticles can enter the human body through the lungs, intestinal tract, and skin. Therefore, the researchers and workers who handle nanoparticles and nanomaterials can theoretically and primarily be affected, whereas on the consumers this will have secondary effects. This paper aims at sharing and evaluating the investment scenario, present status and recent developments in nanotechnology, with specific focus on nanosafety issues in different research projects and national nanotechnology policies, strategies or roadmap in 6 ASEAN countries i.e. Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. In general, it can safely be inferred that like their western counterparts, though these ASEAN countries have realized the importance of investment and institutional set-ups, and already spent huge amount of money in nanotechnology, the concern for nano risk and safety is not still considered a serious issue for them. This paper provides a better understanding and highlights the importance of prioritizing nanosafety issue to the policymakers and the stakeholders of this region.

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  • This nanotechnology without care can be seen as simply an extension of prevailing entropic second law chaos. A creation hypothesis, based upon first physics principles means that all of science must be modified accordingly. Isaac Newton most certainly did not hold that mechanical mass was a first physics principle explaining gravity (28th Query Discussions 2nd Edition of his journal Opticks). He wrote that to argue otherwise was a pretentious hypothesis. Whether or not he was write or wrong is not the point, quantum mechanics, derived from his clockwork universal theories is a pretentious science, dismissing his properties of particle movement the ability to evolve emotional consciousness.  In 2002 Harvard and Massachusetts Universities held an international symposium to bring to the attention of the world the social importance of the Danish Golden Age of Science. They noted that the scientific research had been written mostly in Danish , not translated, becoming invisible to English speaking scholarship. However the leader of the Golden Age, Hans Christian Anderson's Science-Art lectures had been translated into English and the Science-Art Research Centre has made Newton's little known gravitation theory visible.

    In cancer research the the entropic energies holding quantum mechanics entangle with information energies flowing in the opposite direction. In the development of the Danish Golden Age, asymmetric electromagnet lensing in the mind is responsible for artistic creative expression. In the book, The Beauty of Fractals-Images of Complex Dynamical Systems, failure to understand how to link infinite fractal logic to the living process is the rotten foundation of our doomed civilisation . The authors appear not to have know that their computer generated pictures when viewed through asymmetrical electromagnetic lenses, depict stereoscopic images. The patent documentation for the glasses appears linked to cancer research. The document also points out the Cezzanne and Van Gogh paintings did the same. The science-Art Research Centre has created paintings far more dramatic that in the fractal book and by other artists over the centrurys.  An Australian University is considering sponsoring our cancer research Science-Art exhibitions and it would be very helpful if we were to receive a few words of general interest in this project please.

    Professor Robert Pope.

     

  • thanks for sharing with us

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