Pedantic note: At this scale, a particle is nothing more than a distribution of the probability of making some kind of measurement. So composites of multiple s

Pedantic note: At this scale, a particle is nothing more than a distribution of the probability of making some kind of measurement. So composites of multiple samples aren't a suboptimal means of imaging atomic structure, they're the only way. To do anything else would be to show only part of the probability field that is the atom. (Right? I've been going back and forth about this since I saw those "videos" in 2015 of "individual photons". My gut reaction was that those aren't videos, they're simulations that cleverly represent the probability of measuring a photon as the brightness of of the "photon", but since we're measuring inherently probabilistic things maybe that's the only honest way to do it, in which case perhaps we ought to accept them as images.)