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Originally posted by pavil
I don't get how a sub atomic photo of the concentric circles of an electron look similar to a huge early morning launch of a spiraling rocket, other than they are both circular.
Originally posted by pavil
reply to post by BRITWARRIOR
Yes. quantum physics gets kinda "mystical" when you get done to the building blocks of matter, but what does that have to do with a massive image of a rocket malfunction?
Originally posted by paradigm619
So I read the article but I am still a little confused. Is the video an image of one single electron? Or are the concentric rings a series of electrons rotating about the nucleus?
Originally posted by Shere Khaan
From my undersanding of the article you are not seeing the electron itself but the energy from it, hence the diffuse image.
Originally posted by BRITWARRIOR
dont electrons jump in & out dimentions? IE thay can be in 2 places at the same time, strange little things
Originally posted by die_another_day
I calculated that the frequency of the light used is beyond gamma rays.
Lots of energy used.
Pretty amazing I'd say,
teachers used to say that you can never see anything smaller than the nucleus.
I'm like, BS. You have photons which are smaller.
[edit on 12/25/2009 by die_another_day]