Saw this movie today on the BBC news website: The World's Smallest Movie. It's made using the scanning tunnelling microscope - a close relative ('the parent') of the atomic force microscope. Each 'ball' is a carbon atom that is moved around on a copper surface. The BBC website also uses 'the diameter of a human hair', again, as a length comparison: 1000 frames (images) would span a hair's width. ~James
Some of you will have seen this before, but there is a website 'Scale of the Universe' that enables you to 'scroll through' the universe, from the furthest stars to the contents of atoms and everything in between. Well worth a look. There is also a Youtube version. ~James  | AuthorsContributions from various team members participating in the project. ArchivesMarch 2014 CategoriesAll |
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