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- fwertz, on 02/26/2008, -3/+148Dugg for resembling a Windows Media Player Visualization.
- theman8631, on 02/26/2008, -0/+132"It takes about 150 attoseconds for an electron to circle the nucleus of an atom. An attosecond is 10^-18 seconds long, or, expressed in another way: an attosecond is related to a second as a second is related to the age of the universe,"
Just blew my ***** mind - quantumdot, on 02/26/2008, -4/+117One should note that observing electrons changes their quantum mechanical state. The amazing thing here is they seem to be doing the observing without disturbing the atom's "electron rings." The other amazing thing here is that you can for the first time see inside an atom when things happen to it!
"Although not a capture of movement in the traditional sense but rather a representation of the electron's energy distribution, it is the still the first filmed sequence of the entire event, as opposed to previous attempts that used indirect methods." - Another News Site - omnithought, on 02/26/2008, -3/+82so the universe is a big rave?
- astyler, on 02/26/2008, -6/+76***** you Heisenberg!
- quantumdot, on 02/26/2008, -2/+67Sorry to keep posting, but there is a much better news article on this at the following URL:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/08022 ... - Hobbes24, on 02/26/2008, -3/+67wow...just...wow.
i don't know how many of you understand just how incredible this really is...the Heisenberg uncertainty principle led myself, and most others who've taken heavy science courses that this sort of thing would NEVER be possible...
we may finally be able to discover exactly how the electron orbits the atom!!!
(i feel like such a ***** nerd right now, getting this excited, haha) - dinostabOMG, on 02/26/2008, -0/+58Anyone else having trouble getting that player to work? I found this alternative: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hck3t8hqdsU
- cubbiesx, on 02/26/2008, -3/+51um, watched the video. looked like a blue thumbprint dancing to massage parlor new age music. fantastic!
- e30guy, on 02/26/2008, -4/+50with freaking laser beams
- raiden431, on 02/26/2008, -1/+38Snore? This research could have huge ramifications. If we can learn more about the behavior of electrons and the effect they have on the atoms that they leave, it could lead to huge advances in the knowledge of sub-atomic processes and perhaps even have some tremendously useful applications in anything from electronics and communications to power generation.
- yodaj007, on 02/26/2008, -4/+40Scientists are perplexed why electrons look like Pacman.
- andywebb95, on 02/26/2008, -4/+39Ahhhhaaaaa told you then existed.
Picture or it didn't happen my ass. - FarcicalFart, on 02/26/2008, -3/+38Video:
http://www.livescience.com/php/video/player.php?vi ... - Digitalicious, on 02/26/2008, -2/+34For some reason, before viewing the video, I was expecting more than a bunch of indistinguishable dots. I don't know why.
- inactive, on 02/26/2008, -0/+29The uncertainty relation still holds. Many people misinterpret this as a case of being incapable of observing "small things." This is not true, the uncertainty principle is actually from Fourier theorem, and any two non-communicable operators (such as position and momentum) are under this principle (because of wave-particle duality).
The Uncertainty principle never said anything about probability densities, and that is what this video actually is of (which is still remarkable). - robbh66, on 02/26/2008, -2/+29Course this could all be fixed by going back to before the whole idea of "friends" on digg came up.
Digg used to be great. Now it's some sort of "game" for people to see who can get the most ***** to the FP or who can get the most traffic to their site that absolutely doesn't deserve it. Occassionally the story pops up that should be there, got there without having 234232 friends, and is actually a good article, but that's rare these days.
Friends on digg... They were a bad idea then. They're a bad idea now. They need to go. Period. - trebuchet03, on 02/26/2008, -1/+24Curse them! They changed its motion by watching it!
But seriously... "extreme speediness." Did the writer set the dumb down generator to full blast? In any case, very very cool. - harusp3x, on 02/26/2008, -3/+25Heisenberg's gonna be pissed.
- systemghost, on 02/26/2008, -1/+23This is a pretty cool visual, but Windows Media Player has been doing that for years.
- cerealjynx, on 02/26/2008, -1/+21Goddamn, electrons sound freaky as hell!
- shakbhaji, on 02/26/2008, -0/+20they flick the switch on and off very quick-a-like!
- Daiken, on 02/26/2008, -0/+19Can anyone explain what we're seeing here? I'm guessing the main atom is in the middle, and the electron is moving around so quickly and jumping from shell to shell, that the blue indicates where it is some of the time, and the brighter colours indicate where it is more often.
- jdh24, on 02/26/2008, -1/+20rofl. wah, they can't make something that's like 10^-20 meters more clear!!
- d0onut, on 02/26/2008, -0/+17So did the other 5 people who said the same thing.
- elscorcho717, on 02/26/2008, -4/+21I've always wanted to see what this looked like, and I gotta say, I'm dissapointed.
- elipabst, on 02/26/2008, -0/+16So thought that was going to be a rickroll....
- SeventhSon, on 02/26/2008, -0/+16I'm uncertain.
- lartones, on 02/26/2008, -3/+19nerd!
- h4mx0r, on 02/26/2008, -0/+15So then anytime is party time?
- sakuraz, on 02/26/2008, -0/+15You're not a nerd.
I'm studying accounting and even I'm excited! - tian2992, on 02/26/2008, -0/+13But, how they did located it!?
- elliotys, on 02/26/2008, -10/+23So will this be on HD-DVD or Blu-ray?
- inactive, on 02/26/2008, -2/+15***** you another person who doesn't understand the uncertainty principle!
- valkyries, on 02/26/2008, -0/+12it wasnt really there, it was over there.
- Gaulven, on 02/26/2008, -0/+12My question *exactly*.
- JohnFlux, on 02/26/2008, -2/+14Actually 'indistinguishable' is more correct than you might realise. Electrons really /really/ are indistinguishable - even to the universe.
My favourite example is imagine you had two coins, and flipped them. You could get HH, TH, HT, TT. But if they were indistinguishable, in the way electrons are, then TH would be the same as HT, so you'd only get HH, TH, TT (where TH means one head and one tail). So the first case, there'd be a 1/4 chance of getting HH, and in the second case there'd be a 1/3 change of getting HH.
It results in a lot of strange effects :-) - sheitmar, on 02/26/2008, -0/+11Youtube video, couldn't get the other one to work:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=32uEvwxNJvE - badgermagics, on 02/26/2008, -0/+11Hah, replying to my own comment. I think I found it though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32uEvwxNJvE
- cinder, on 02/26/2008, -1/+12Bricks. Shat.
- UNCCEJ1010, on 02/26/2008, -1/+11I am uncertain as to your meaning.
- BrettSchu, on 02/26/2008, -7/+17Ha, take that Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
- sonicularulus, on 02/26/2008, -0/+10i hope they used 70mm Imax technology.
- killerknives, on 02/26/2008, -0/+9im scared
- pegothejerk, on 02/26/2008, -1/+10so.. beautiful.. should have sent a poet..
- JavertHolmes, on 02/26/2008, -1/+10Are textbooks going to be updated to note that electrons in motion tend to take the shape of Tron's disc?
- KaJuN4, on 02/26/2008, -0/+9Wakka wakka wakka
- inactive, on 02/26/2008, -0/+9Yeah, come on... The people on CSI have a machine that can film individual quarks in HD.
- badgermagics, on 02/26/2008, -0/+8Video mirror?
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