First Photo of Shadow of Single Atom

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ScienceDaily (July 3, 2012) — In an international scientific breakthrough, a Griffith University research team has been able to photograph the shadow of a single atom for the first time.



"We have reached the extreme limit of microscopy; you can not see anything smaller than an atom using visible light," Professor Dave Kielpinski of Griffith University's Centre for Quantum Dynamics in Brisbane, Australia.

"We wanted to investigate how few atoms are required to cast a shadow and we proved it takes just one," Professor Kielpinski said.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120703172543.htm

Published this week in Nature Communications, "Absorption imaging of a single atom "is the result of work over the last 5 years by the Kielpinski/Streed research team.

[Arctic Dave]

1. Wait! Take another, his eyes were closed.

Just kidding. Very cool.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Hmm..that pic looks photoshopped to me.

[Lochloosa]

3. Say Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis and SMILE!

[HopeHoops]

4. I learned that word in 9th grade - it was one of our vocabulary words.

I don't encounter many people who know it or have any clue what it means.

On Edit: And yes, I can pronounce it without looking at the word.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

7. eh...vocabulary word? really?

made up simply to be the longest word in the english language...kinda cool, i guess.

sP

[needledriver]

5. What does a single atom cast a shadow on? n/t

[Kaleko]

6. Great question.

I would say it will have to be the field. Call it the Higgs Boson field or the Morphogenetic Field (Sheldrake),
or the field that Rumi speaks of when he sang:

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there."