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corvid

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Jan 20, 2022, 11:12:26 PM1/20/22
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/photo-single-atom-223600812.html

Atoms aren't so small.

Anthony William Sloman

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Jan 21, 2022, 2:02:57 AM1/21/22
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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

Phil Allison

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Jan 21, 2022, 7:26:30 AM1/21/22
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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




corvid

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Jan 21, 2022, 11:44:18 AM1/21/22
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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.
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