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No I disagree. An ultrasound picture of a baby accurately reflects the actual form of the baby. A Scanning Tunneling Electron Microscope does not accurately ref
by James001 10y ago
No I disagree. An ultrasound picture of a baby accurately reflects the actual form of the baby. A Scanning Tunneling Electron Microscope does not accurately reflect the form of an atom because it simply uses an artificial dot to represent the presence or absence of an atom. In short, the "map" that STM's give us is abstracted from reality and does not accurately portray an atom (in large part because STM's still simply due not measure at the scale of an atom).
- semi-extrinsic 10y agoWell, we can image molecular orbitals using STM [1], which I'd say is one of the best ways to represent the shapes of atoms. [1] https://physics.aps.org/featured-article-pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.086101 https://physics.aps.org/featured-article-pdf/10.1103/PhysRev... (open access)