Photographing Atoms

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• Samush0

  did they use a mobile phone camera?
  we can find out the colour of someone's hair from many tens of miles in space and we can't take a decent photo of something small that's right in front of us, what's that about?!

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  • is that first statement really true?lukus_W
  • Your problem is in thinking there is any 'thing' to take a picture of. That image doesn't show matter as we know it.detritus
  • It's more akin to a blind person feeling an array of small jets of air. Though that's still far from accurate.detritus

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