Paul Reip, Managing Director of QinetiQ Nanomaterials, here shows a little box containing 2 grammes of nanomaterial. The particles cannot be seen or counted conventionally, but in these 2 grammes of material there is enough to give everyone on the planet 250000 particles. The size of each particle is 10-9 metres, proportionally the difference in size between one particle and a football is the same as the difference between a football and the moon.