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8mo ago

This Stunning Image Is The Highest Resolution We've Ever Seen Atoms

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This Stunning Image Is The Highest Resolution We've Ever Seen Atoms

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So it's galaxies all the way down?
- And all the way up!
  There are organisms for whom our galaxies are seen as cells.
  
  What organisms are those?
- yes

This is just really neat. Keep up the good work, scientists!

One step closer to teleporters
- Screw teleporters, I want replicators
  
  All of the above and holodecks please
  
  Is there much difference between the two logistically? Seems like the replicator is just the second half of a transporter.
  
  Yeah, I suppose replicators are an inevitable punctuated step on the way.

It's incredible that we can actually 'see' the atomic lattice and it's also pretty wicked that the oxygen atom is more 'fuzzy' because, I think given the explanation on how they imaged this, it's less dense than praseodymium and scandium.

how do they achieve higher resolutions than with former electron microscopes.
- They use a technique called ptychography. They explain it a bit more in the article.
  
  The way they describe it in the article is how I understand a electron microscope works
- interferometry

Crazy

Neat!

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