Originally published at: This is the highest-resolution image of atoms ever seen | Boing Boing
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Seriously wonderful.
What a thing it is, to live in this time and place, and see this.
Just… wow.
Obligs:
Nothing’s really as it seems.
It’s so wonderfully different than anything big.
The world is a dynamic mass of jiggling things.
–Richard Feynman
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From the article, image with additional context:
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So that’s whats going on in those damn atoms.
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A nice and detailed explanation of what you are actually seeing in the image:
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finite? as opposed to… 
lol, I can’t wait to casually work that concept into everyday conversation, “yeah, i sat in the waiting room a finite amount of time before seeing the doctor today”
“oh, I need to call an exterminator on account of this finite rat problem I have in my apartment”
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This is atomic Pornography! I refuse to be party to such filth and want my boingboing BBS subscription refunded POST HASTE!
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Damn atoms! Thought they could hide from us… but nooooooooooo!
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I’m stirring the atoms in my Whiskey, Right Now.
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Give 'em what for!
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cool!
and I have rapidly chilled and vigorously agitated gin atoms with crystalline H2O at a finite temperature moments ago (or was it just now - perhaps both) in what I will hitherto refer as a Quantum Martini™
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The challenge with a quantum martini is you can either know how fast you’re drinking it or how much you have left, but never both at the same time.
This results is an uncertain but large number of empty glasses that can only be counted the next morning.
(Edited for grammar, as is so often the case)
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Nerdgasm! I love this stuff!
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When we dance, we’re just tuning in to our atoms.
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so hard to me to understand it hehehhe
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Of course almost every picture is a picture of atoms but I get what you mean.
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