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Lame. This is an optical illusion. Call me when you actually image an atom at the atomic scale. That's what I was expecting, when I read the title descriptio

Lame. This is an optical illusion. Call me when you actually image an atom at the atomic scale. That's what I was expecting, when I read the title description: Picture of a Single Atom Wins Science Photo Contest Like, the helical structure of DNA. I want to see how an atom looks like in reality, on the atomic scale. Along with the protons, neutrons, and maybe the electrons flying around it. Zzz.. going back to sleep now..

madez 9y ago
> Along with the protons, neutrons, and maybe the electrons flying around it. That is not how reality works. Stuff is quantum mechanical and has no analog in the macroscopic world. All one can ever see are consequences of interactions. This is what we are seeing.