Friday, February 1, 2013

Shadow of an atom

At first I was like:  "An atom is too small to cast a shadow,"  but it turns out they focus a very specific color light that's absorbed by this element to generate this rough image.  Here's the link

Here's another link with an additional illustration w/ perspective of how the shadow was generated.

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