[QuantumDelta]

These microscopes are not so good as to see imaginary things Dekker.

Old Intelligence maxim: If you look hard enough for something you will find it, whether it actually exists or not.

That applies to more things than recon 

[Colonol Dekker]

Jealous girlfriends for instance

[Nuke]

cool, now we can measure derek smart's brain

[Mika]

I don't think this would qualify as "imaging" in optical terms.

Anyways, great job. Makes one wonder how does the Heisenberg uncertainity principle work with these thingies. Now that it would be possible to "see" it.

[Mongoose]

Yeah, you're just "seeing" the structure of the bonds themselves, not the actual electrons that are being shared.

[Flipside]

Well, imaging means 'visual representation of', I think there's a bit of picking at carbon nanotubes going on here

[Mika]

Well, imaging means 'visual representation of', I think there's a bit of picking at carbon nanotubes going on here

Ummm, no, in the optical context it does not mean that. In everyday context it does. This actually lead me to think that they have managed to actually image the molecule with some photons sporting insanely short wavelengths.

I was wondering how does the uncertainity principle manifest itself from that depiction of the molecule? By showing the bonds as "tubes", rather than localized electrons? Ditto for protons.

Off the record, I never liked quantum physics (and actively try to forget it), but maybe here could be a chance to catch up what is really going on inside those molecule thingies. Like, it could start to make some sense when you see it.

[Flipside]

Ummm, no, in the optical context it does not mean that. In everyday context it does. This actually lead me to think that they have managed to actually image the molecule with some photons sporting insanely short wavelengths.

Only on HLP....

[General Battuta]

Off the record, I never liked quantum physics (and actively try to forget it), but maybe here could be a chance to catch up what is really going on inside those molecule thingies. Like, it could start to make some sense when you see it.

I think that's what quantum physics already does. It's just not an intuitive kind of sense.

We want the world to be hard and discrete, but at the quantum level, things may actually be fuzzy.

[Mongoose]

Some wishful part of me hopes that that "fuzziness" appears only because we haven't found the universe's focus knob yet.

[Ghostavo]

If there's such a focus knob, the results of the double-slit experiment would be very interesting to explain.