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(Some Guy)		Researchers photograph the shadow of a single atom. There will be 6 more weeks of quantum uncertainty (dailydisruption.com)		24
		More: Cool, atoms, Griffith University, doubts, quantum computing, shadows, microscopes, visible light

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PreMortem		2012-07-03 06:34:29 PM

Wow, had no idea they looked so cool.

/hot , like fusion

dramboxf		2012-07-03 08:48:30 PM

Or will there?

mamoru		2012-07-03 09:02:15 PM

dramboxf: Or will there?

*Stephen Colbert eyebrow wiggle*

Organic Chemistry		2012-07-03 09:25:39 PM

Come on chemistry jokes!

Makh		2012-07-03 09:41:59 PM

Organic Chemistry: Come on chemistry jokes!

It's just photons hitting an atom, nothing to get excited over.

PC LOAD LETTER		2012-07-03 09:46:56 PM

That article might as well have been written by Cosmopolitan.

Makh		2012-07-03 09:50:36 PM

Organic Chemistry: Forgive me, being organic chemistry, you probably like the mechanism of your jokes to have a radical substitution in them.

mamoru		2012-07-03 10:32:07 PM

Makh: Organic Chemistry: Come on chemistry jokes!

It's just photons hitting an atom, nothing to get excited over.

Uggghhh... Any more jokes like that, and you're grounded! We'll have no more of that sulfur, hydrogen, iodine, and tellurium here!

Makh		2012-07-03 10:48:30 PM

mamoru: Uggghhh... Any more jokes like that, and you're grounded! We'll have no more of that sulfur, hydrogen, iodine, and tellurium here!

You didn't have to be an arsole about it. :(

mamoru		2012-07-03 11:02:20 PM

Makh: mamoru: Uggghhh... Any more jokes like that, and you're grounded! We'll have no more of that sulfur, hydrogen, iodine, and tellurium here!

You didn't have to be an arsole about it. :(

You are right. I should have figured that this would be such a polar discussion. I'll do my best to ketone.

SJKebab		2012-07-03 11:17:09 PM

I love articles which talk about an amazing image which neglect to include the actual image in question.

SJKebab		2012-07-03 11:19:58 PM

SJKebab: I love articles which talk about an amazing image which neglect to include the actual image in question.

www.dailydisruption.com

Ignore me - I fail reading comprehension.

Snarcoleptic_Hoosier		2012-07-03 11:37:34 PM

Shooting light At Them!

cretinbob		2012-07-03 11:58:16 PM

Hmmmm..... I recently heard someone ask if atoms could cast a shadow.......

//going to eat a plate of shrimp

J. Frank Parnell		2012-07-04 12:07:17 AM

Sure, it's a particle now. But turn your back on it for a second and it's all acting like a wave, listening to wave music, and hanging out with other waves.

Bondith		2012-07-04 12:10:16 AM

mamoru
Uggghhh... Any more jokes like that, and you're grounded! We'll have no more of that sulfur, hydrogen, iodine, and tellurium here!

Which has less energy, steak or hamburger?

Hamburger, it's in the ground state.

Bondith		2012-07-04 12:14:07 AM

PC Load Letter
That article might as well have been written by Cosmopolitan.

I concur. Science articles always make me cringe. This is why I need to be on TV and fill Bill Nye's shoes.

"If we change the frequency of the light we shine on the atom by just one part in a billion, the image can no longer be seen," Professor Kielpinski said.

Wow, it's almost as if the electronic transitions are quantised.

Actually, snark aside, that is pretty cool to see experiments so closely conform to theory. It's nice to get something right every now and then.

/phlogisti-what?

Cuchulane		2012-07-04 01:00:41 AM

Once again, an article about a picture without that picture.

lisarenee3505		2012-07-04 01:44:19 AM

Cuchulane: Once again, an article about a picture without that picture.

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No kidding! They should know the rule by now, "pics or it didn't happen."

Anagrammer		2012-07-04 02:27:30 AM

Cuchulane: Once again, an article about a picture without that picture.

lisarenee3505: No kidding! They should know the rule by now, "pics or it didn't happen."

Shhhhh...nobody tell them...let's all just watch and see how long it takes them to figure it out...

serjohn		2012-07-04 06:59:33 AM

A neutron walks into a bar and orders a beer. Bartender brings him the beer and the neutron asks how much? Bartender replies for you buddy no charge.

mamoru		2012-07-04 07:38:46 AM

serjohn: A neutron walks into a bar and orders a beer. Bartender brings him the beer and the neutron asks how much? Bartender replies for you buddy no charge.

A neutrino enters a bar. The Bartender asks, "Can I get you anything?" The neutrino replies, "Nah. Just passing through."