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This Photo Shows a Single Atom

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by: corvid - Fri, 21 Jan 2022 04:12 UTC

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by: Anthony William Slom - Fri, 21 Jan 2022 07:02 UTC

On Friday, January 21, 2022 at 3:12:26 PM UTC+11, corvid wrote:
> https://finance.yahoo.com/news/photo-single-atom-223600812.html
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> Atoms aren't so small.

They are quite small. The photo isn't showing a "single atom". It is showing optical photons emitted from what is claimed to be a single strontium atom, and the size of the dot is defined by the quality of the photographic system that generated the image, rather than any feature of the source.

You can use a high voltage electron microscope to image single atom on a surface composed a of a bunch of similar atoms, but we've been able to do that for ages.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

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by: Phil Allison - Fri, 21 Jan 2022 12:26 UTC

covid wrote:
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> https://finance.yahoo.com/news/photo-single-atom-223600812.html
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> Atoms aren't so small.
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** The obviously fake pic won a " photographic " comp - not a science award.

Funny how every news story covering the pic contains the exact same bullshit words.
Copy & paste.
All journos ever do these days.

Journo = " media greaser".

...... Phil

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by: corvid - Fri, 21 Jan 2022 16:44 UTC

On 1/21/22 04:26, Phil Allison wrote:
> covid wrote: ===============
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>> https://finance.yahoo.com/news/photo-single-atom-223600812.html
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>> Atoms aren't so small.
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> ** The obviously fake pic won a " photographic " comp - not a
> science award.

Lissen, I got a Retina Display. There it is.

Subject	Author
This Photo Shows a Single Atom	corvid
Re: This Photo Shows a Single Atom	Anthony William Sloman
Re: This Photo Shows a Single Atom	Phil Allison
Re: This Photo Shows a Single Atom	corvid