What do atoms look like?

They have a big function

for you

you don't get to bring (9) electrons

Fluorine?

Aye

The same as the substance looks in bulk, but so small you can't see it.

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how can you even see electrons when light is electrons

it's like putting two mirrors together they won't see anything

what colour do protons have anyway?

>quantum realm
Someone doesn't know that quantum essentially means 'small'
its not a different realm, wtf

it is though, its at a different scale so it's not inaccurate to call it another realm.

How does splitting an atom create a massive explosion? Did the atom bomb literally split an atom in two to release the energy or was that just an expression? Can an atom be squeezed until it is crushed?

when you squeeze it enough the grease comes out and catches fire

Its a chain reaction of large atoms breaking into smaller ones and releasing part their energy in the process

>photograph
>quantum microscope

jesus...

not even going to point out the laughability that the electron has been imaged in a classical ring orbital, or that the nuclear to electron radius ratio is totally fucking wrong. or maybe i will, its fucking wrong.

>scale bar in µm
>SEM image

those are fucking microbeads you faggot

The exit function of an electron beam that passes through a crystalline matrix of atoms produces an image that looks like this. Here you can equate the white spots to the positions of atomic columns, and correctly measure the interatomic planar distances in the crystal. The contrast depends on the microscope settings, however, the atomic columns can just as easily appear dark instead of bright.

>>quantum microscope

Photoionization microscopy isnt as catchy

quantum doesn't mean small. it means what atom technically means and was supposed to mean for physics, "indivisibility". in other words, a quanta is the smallest possible unit for a measurable property, which in turn means you dont have a continuum but instead discreet building blocks.

quantum does imply small (nanoscale and under), as that is the scale at which quanta exist. but it doesnt mean small.

and yes, you can talk about the quantum realm or the nano world or what have you. people understand you are talking about the physics that dominates interaction at that scale.

>mfw its real

Shit. I didnt even realize we were doing this and I work in electron microscopy.

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low tier shitpost

Facebook tier shit

This
Like quantum of solace

Its real nigger

Lol no

kek

Our intuitions about macroscale reality are just superstition. Exactly the same as religion, and other cultural assumptions. Shortcuts that allow us to quickly connect seemingly unconnected events and navigate our way to survival in this vastly strange place. This superstition is necessary, because processing information about our surroundings atom by atom or particle by particle would necessarily take our brains many many times longer than there is time left in the universe.

So don't ask what atoms "look" like. Ask whether the everyday things you look at are the reality.

I love how everything outside of the human dynamic range of observation is rendered to a flat series of concentric circles.

The jury is out on how "real" atoms are. Once you start studying advanced, mathematical chemistry/chemical physics, you realize that atoms are more or less just a tool to make chemistry predictable/usable in an adequate time frame. In reality, all of the particles that make up an "atom" as we understand are elegantly described as wave-functions and probabilities, not particles. Electrons don't "orbit" in a circle around a nucleus, for example, but rather are point charges that exist in a "cloud," as seen in pic related. The cloud is simply the area where the electron has a probability of appearing out of the field. In pic related, notice how "nodes" emerge as areas of zero probability for electron occupancy, like nodes in a guitar string.

explain this

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanning_tunneling_microscope