whoa. Cool!

http://www.dump.com/wringingout/

Exoplanets!!

It's where you live once we've finally ruined earth!

http://www.uproxx.com/tag/exoplanet/

How does i smashed atom?

http://www.wimp.com/atomsmashing/

Ever see an atom?

http://www.wimp.com/seenatom/

Thanks science!

where was it, Johnson?

i looked at the video. it ended with 3D imaging that was a graphical depiction of what was believed to be a swarm of Atoms.
i dont think they were able to filter enough "noise" out.
And how can we be certain that what is being seen is not noise to a degree we do not know as of yet?

Ill look at it again. it seems though that you sorta mislead us here.

Did you watch the same clip as I did?

from the clip . . .

"Each of the tiny dots you can see here are actual platinum atoms."



That is very cool.

It's impossible to see an atom in the conventional sense.

Nor can we see this with the naked eye:



Instead researchers have gathered data and located where the atoms are and generated an image from that data that reproduces the arrangement in a much larger reconstruction.

Since we can't get a direct image with the visible spectrum we can't literally see it, yet all the same reasonable people would describe this as "seeing" it...

You should have easily digested this information from the video if you had any honest interest in it, instead of merely wishing to add another notch to your "anting" scoreboard.

Right seabiscuit?

I've got a set of rare-earth magnets that come in a cube. They are just a fun little physics hobby toy, but i was strongly reminded of them looking at that platinum particle.

When you make crystaline shapes like the platinum particle, from certain angles you can see right through it, like looking through rows of corn.

Crystals are materials with repeated patterns in the atom arangement, like 3-dimensional wallpaper.



The same pattern is repeated in two dimensions in the above. and in three dimensions below.



Incidentally, these areas where there are individual layers are the most likely places and angles to sheer these materials. The first graphene was made by removing carbon layers with sticky tape!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene

Very interesting stuff.

geo wrote:Did you watch the same clip as I did?

from the clip . . .

"Each of the tiny dots you can see here are actual platinum atoms."



That is very cool.

Let me look at it again. im on my iPhone again.

very interesting.
how is "noise" detected and corrected?
And are we certain that this is not a manifestation of noise?