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World's Most Advanced Microscope Unveiled

Unread postby Carlhole » Thu 23 Oct 2008, 17:51:44

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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'L')ast week, a group of international scientists came to campus to check out the Titan themselves.

"They were astounded by its capability, and by the fact that there is such support in this country for a venture of this magnitude," said John Capone, Dean of Science. "We should be very proud that McMaster has taken the initiative to secure this facility. There are many applications for it in life sciences. This particular instrument will enable many new discoveries in the areas of fundamental biological and physical sciences that will help us to better understand the nature of diseases and the development of new cures."

Dean of Engineering David Wilkinson sees the microscope through another lens.

"The Titan's ability to probe the structure of solid materials to the atomic level will have an impact on the development and commercialization of new technologies from biomedical devices to water quality monitoring and improved energy storage systems," said Wilkinson.


Incredible! The photo above is a picture of the atoms in aluminum. The development in atomic level microscopy is so strong that this microscope will soon need an upgrade just to stay competitive with other scopes being developed right now.

Pretty soon, scientists say, they will be able to use these ultra-powerful microscopes to examine the part of the human brain responsible for snarking comments about the uselessness of technology.
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Re: World's Most Advanced Microscope Unveiled

Unread postby lonewolf » Sat 25 Oct 2008, 14:40:36

If they can manage to refine this sufficiently, perhaps they could deploy same to examine St. Sarah's conscience.
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Re: World's Most Advanced Microscope Unveiled

Unread postby firefly » Sun 26 Oct 2008, 02:24:16

This is totally useless. We already new aluminum was made of atoms.
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Re: World's Most Advanced Microscope Unveiled

Unread postby Pretorian » Sun 26 Oct 2008, 02:45:16

I wonder what exactly do we see there as 1 atom? Perpetual movements of its electorns? Gosh they gotta be spinning fast.
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Re: World's Most Advanced Microscope Unveiled

Unread postby lys3rg0 » Sun 26 Oct 2008, 22:18:31

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'I') wonder what exactly do we see there as 1 atom? Perpetual movements of its electorns?


You can't "see" electrons through a microscope... or so Heisenberg says :P
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Re: World's Most Advanced Microscope Unveiled

Unread postby eastbay » Sun 26 Oct 2008, 22:27:26

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lys3rg0', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'I') wonder what exactly do we see there as 1 atom? Perpetual movements of its electorns?


You can't "see" electrons through a microscope... or so Heisenberg says :P




Then what are all those dots?

And what did this darn contraption cost anyhow? Every time I see a crazy invention like this I get the feeling it'll never do us any good because things are falling apart so fast.

Same thing with that 'dream solar roof' idea, which is supposedly 10 years off... 10 years before cold fusion arrives BTW.
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Re: World's Most Advanced Microscope Unveiled

Unread postby Carlhole » Mon 27 Oct 2008, 00:04:20

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lys3rg0', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'I') wonder what exactly do we see there as 1 atom? Perpetual movements of its electorns?


You can't "see" electrons through a microscope... or so Heisenberg says :P




Then what are all those dots?

And what did this darn contraption cost anyhow? Every time I see a crazy invention like this I get the feeling it'll never do us any good because things are falling apart so fast.

Same thing with that 'dream solar roof' idea, which is supposedly 10 years off... 10 years before cold fusion arrives BTW.


$15 million.

Those are atoms in the photo. I guess the microscope sees an electron field which appears spherical.

I thought this was amazing because I had grown up believing that it was impossible for a microscope ever to see even the largest of atoms. What is more amazing is that this microscope is already obsolete compared to other microscopes presently being built in Europe.

This is really quite stunning. It means that all sorts of complex atomic arrangements in organic and inorganic materials can be directly "seen" now.
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Re: World's Most Advanced Microscope Unveiled

Unread postby maestroe » Mon 27 Oct 2008, 02:06:18

This is the fallacy of estimation.

The only reason you can see the qluminumn atoms is that they are a strong metal locked in a crystal lattice.

Atoms move 600 miles per hour at room tem, so you will never see a water molecul or air molecule or organic atom.

pretty though.

Different ceramics can show up, but they can already predict the crustal structure of any compound, so it won't really help anything but spend mony and get a nobel prize aas the world economy melts down.
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