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Picture of a single Strontium atom
Joshua Green
Levi Bailey
Are you seeing an atom or recombination?
Ayden Long
It's a single atom. I believe they used lasers to slow it down and a magnetic field to hold it. Then they shown light on it that it reflects and exposed the camera for a few hours.
Kevin Evans
Where's the wave bit?
Angel Barnes
That's a big atom.
Kevin Brown
What
I tought atoms were basically invisible
Is this one big enough that it can be seen
What's the zoom in that picture?
Daniel Hernandez
fucking scam... you can never see a single atom because it is smaller than the wavelength of all forms of light.
you are just seeing a small speck of metal held in place by magnets and heated by lasers.
Jeremiah Garcia
>light
Yeah, nah
Ayden Flores
>you can never see an atom
>things are made of atoms
>you can never see a thing
The reason it looks that big is because the single atom is confined within a magnetic well of certain size. Over many hours, the points at which it emits a photon average out over the volume of the well to make the dot we see.
We are seeing the shape of the well, illuminated by a single atom over many hours.
Michael Bell
Beautiful.
Asher Hernandez
Is that the electron cloud that we are seeing?
Camden Allen
Isaac Williams
As far as I'm aware ion traps don't isolate single atoms, and I'm not letting a news site covering UFO babies tell me oyherwise.
Christian Wright
The guy is a quantum physicist. (twitter.com
It truly saddens me when skeptic zealots miss out on great discoveries and experiments just because they can't understand them.
Alexander James
Someone please give me some insight to this. If that is an atom, is what we see in the picture the nucleus or the electron cloud? If it's the nucleus, then its electron cloud would be, comparatively speaking, huge, no? Maybe I'm going at this all wrong.
t. Very basic understanding of atoms in general
Grayson Lee
John Hughes
Easton Jackson
on fat juicy big atom
John Scott
What you're seeing here is the glow given off by a single atom captured by a camera.
Wyatt Ortiz
>The result, obtained last August, is an image. But it is not a photo. The difference is in how the picture gets made
>In this case, a laser is shone on the strontium atom, and as it absorbs and emits energy, we can see the glow, without actually seeing the atom itself.
So it's just click bait
Luke Barnes
>ackshually we cant really see things because we just perceive the light reflected off
Thomas Thomas
Jacob Garcia
it's still not a picture of an atom you idiot. it's light coming off an atom, which isn't the atom itself it's the light. just because we can prove it's the light doesn't mean anything. we're not seeing the atom itself just the light reflecting off. all that does is prove it's existence not capture it's actual look on camera
Aaron Johnson
Are there people that are actually this retarded?
Jaxon Edwards
how do we even know its an atom? it could be a big chunk of strontium magnetically captured in place.
Austin Lee
Are you a literal dumb ass? Everything we see is light. That is the definition of sight.
Connor Cook
does a strontium atom typically glow like the sun? no. youre just seeing the laser light that is illuminating the atom.
Nicholas Parker
Dominic Rodriguez
What about everything else we see?
Eli Adams
are you actually retarded.
Can you see the moon? hint: it doesnt glow like the sun
Zachary Gomez
lol people falling for this bait
Cooper Garcia
I'll never get over the fact that strontium in my language sounds a lot like the Latin version of "stronzo", which means piece of shit
Jacob Clark
The moon definitely does. Otherwise you couldn't see it at night, you bumbling idiot. What do you think lights up the moon, if it doesn't glow on it's own?
Zachary Martin
lol, baitception
Ryder Lopez
Oh clever one, why does the moon have night time?
Caleb Taylor
>the moon isn't actually real, it's just light from the sun being reflected back at us
Jordan Jones
Nicely done, could be cleaned up a bit though.
Michael Morgan