Oxford student uses ordinary camera to capture atom in prize-winning photograph
A British student has used an ordinary camera and tripod to capture a prizewinning photograph of a single atom.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Oxford student uses ordinary camera to capture atom in prize-winning photographA British student has used an ordinary camera and tripod to capture a prizewinning photograph of a single atom.
Well it’s a photograph of light absorbed and emitted by an atom, but well done.
Bubblecar said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Oxford student uses ordinary camera to capture atom in prize-winning photographA British student has used an ordinary camera and tripod to capture a prizewinning photograph of a single atom.
Well it’s a photograph of light absorbed and emitted by an atom, but well done.
It looks too big to be an atom by the untrained eye.
> “The idea of being able to see a single atom with the naked eye had struck me as a wonderfully direct and visceral bridge between the miniscule quantum world and our macroscopic reality,”
There are several other ways. Browmian motion in a noble gas allows the naked eye to see the momentum of a single atom. A spinthariscope allows the naked eye to see a single radioactive atom.
But using fluorescence like this seems even better than those methods.
mollwollfumble said:
> “The idea of being able to see a single atom with the naked eye had struck me as a wonderfully direct and visceral bridge between the miniscule quantum world and our macroscopic reality,”There are several other ways. Browmian motion in a noble gas allows the naked eye to see the momentum of a single atom. A spinthariscope allows the naked eye to see a single radioactive atom.
But using fluorescence like this seems even better than those methods.
Could you photograph an atom of every type of element on the periodic table and would they look different
>It looks too big to be an atom by the untrained eye.
250pm, vibrating
Magnified by the funky lens which they don’t specify.