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

2 years ago by fossilesque to c/physics

All the normal matter in the Universe is made up of teeny tiny building blocks that are far too small to be seen with the naked eye.

I_Miss_Daniel 28 points 2 years ago

So it's galaxies all the way down?

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flicker 11 points 2 years ago

And all the way up!

There are organisms for whom our galaxies are seen as cells.

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FlaminGoku 5 points 2 years ago

What organisms are those?

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nehal3m 34 points 2 years ago

Your mom.

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aStonedSanta 17 points 2 years ago

Fucking rekt him.

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Iapar 2 points 2 years ago

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jimerson 18 points 2 years ago

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

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SpaceNoodle 15 points 2 years ago

One step closer to teleporters

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rockSlayer 19 points 2 years ago

Screw teleporters, I want replicators

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NaibofTabr 19 points 2 years ago

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AeroLemming 10 points 2 years ago

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CmdrUlle 6 points 2 years ago

Real monkey paw here...

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kat_angstrom 3 points 2 years ago

Aww, that guy's kinda cute, why wouldn't I want to let it live in my house with its pals?

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NaibofTabr 3 points 2 years ago

It's just a toy!

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Yawweee877h444 9 points 2 years ago

All of the above and holodecks please

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Blum0108 4 points 2 years ago

Is there much difference between the two logistically? Seems like the replicator is just the second half of a transporter.

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rockSlayer 3 points 2 years ago

Well there's an episode in ds9 where a replicator is modified into a teleporter, so in the star trek universe they're very similar. Replicators reconstitute matter from waste material, and seems to me to be far more likely in the realm of scientific possibility.

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SpaceNoodle 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I suppose replicators are an inevitable punctuated step on the way.

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mriormro 8 points 2 years ago

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.

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bungalowtill 4 points 2 years ago

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mriormro 5 points 2 years ago

They use a technique called ptychography. They explain it a bit more in the article.

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bungalowtill 2 points 2 years ago

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Blaze 4 points 2 years ago

Crazy

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RizzRustbolt 2 points 2 years ago

Neat!

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