A Scientist Captured an Impossible Photo of a Single Atom

[MewTwo]

A scientist captured an impossible photo of a single atom

A student at the University of Oxford is being celebrated in the world of science photography for capturing a single, floating atom with an ordinary camera.

Using long exposure, PhD candidate David Nadlinger took a photo of a glowing atom in an intricate web of laboratory machinery. In it, the single strontium atom is illuminated by a laser while suspended in the air by two electrodes. For a sense of scale, those two electrodes on each side of the tiny dot are only two millimeters apart.

The image won first prize in a science photo contest conducted by UK based Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

 

[Take It In Blood]

Not quite sure what I'm looking at


I have no way to verify if this is an actual atom or just a random dot


What does an atom even look like?

 

[MidniteDejavu]

Quantum Mechanics

 

[Jay Kast]

That is... actually significantly bigger than I thought an atom would be...

 

[jaguar paw]

Looks like two to me.

I know atoms my nikkas. Believe me.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

imaging giving less than that of a fuçk

 

[CEITEDMOFO]

interesting.

 

[The Fade]

In before the “its cgi I know because my third eye and masons” brehs

 

[Serious]

@MMS @Hawaiian Punch

 

[yardman]

Breh that shyt is cgi, my third eye ain't calcified thanks to being a 33 degree mason ​

 

[TEH]

Breh that shyt is cgi, my third eye ain't calcified thanks to being a 33 degree mason ​

@Swagnificent