Most Detailed Photos of an Atom Yet 229
BuzzSkyline writes "Ukrainian researchers have managed to take pictures of atoms that reveal structure of the electron clouds surrounding carbon nuclei in unprecedented detail. Although the images offer no surprises (they look much like the sketches of electron orbitals included in high school science texts), this is the first time that anyone has directly imaged atoms at this level, rather than inferring the structure of the orbitals from indirect measurements such as electron or X-ray interferometry."
really? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:really? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:really? (Score:5, Funny)
Physicists are not photographers! They obviously had the shutter speed too low - Look how blurry the picture is!
Wooo! (Score:1, Funny)
Particle porn! Could you shave off those electron clouds, now?
mirror (Score:4, Funny)
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(not actual size)
Re:Unscaled photo link (Score:5, Funny)
Wow (Score:4, Funny)
So this is what's powering my netbook!
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MOD PARENT UP!
Re:really? (Score:5, Funny)
can't really call it a photograph if it was taken with electrons rather than light.
I wonder how they can tell the electron is blue?
Re:Unscaled photo link (Score:5, Funny)
I have embedded the unscaled photos in this post.
Millions of them
Re:Speaking as a chemist (Score:2, Funny)
I don't remember learning any chemistry in my U.S. government-run school. Although I did get an A in drivers ed and sewing/cooking (home economics).
Re:really? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:really? (Score:3, Funny)
Duh. It's in a vacuum! Of course it's blue.
If you squint... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Speaking as a chemist (Score:2, Funny)
Cool (Score:2, Funny)
Re:really? (Score:1, Funny)
Everybody knows electrons are blue!
NB: ;)
Its the same with quarks but they are not blue
http://www.particleadventure.org/quarks.html [particleadventure.org]
Re:really? (Score:5, Funny)
Looks like a smurf sat on the photocopier.
Re:It makes me very suspicious indeed. (Score:2, Funny)
Wait until you've read the paper in Phys Rev B then, it's possible the reporter just put their own spin on it...
Re:Pity this is AC (Score:3, Funny)
It looks like a significant experiment, but the summary is quite wrong as to what is being shown.
Dude, this is Slashdot and the discussion is on elementary particle physics. What exactly did you expect?