A Boy And His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie

[progressoid]

You're about to see the movie that holds the Guinness World Records™ record for the World's Smallest Stop-Motion Film. The ability to move single atoms — the smallest particles of any element in the universe — is crucial to IBM's research in the field of atomic memory. But even nanophysicists need to have a little fun. In that spirit, IBM researchers used a scanning tunneling microscope to move thousands of carbon monoxide molecules (two atoms stacked on top of each other), all in pursuit of making a movie so small it can be seen only when you magnify it 100 million times.

A movie made with atoms:

How it was made:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Those two little movies blew me away!

Very worth-while.

And fun as well!

K&R

[Older_than_hills]

2. Thank you for posting this

Those blob things are carbon monoxide molecules, What reasly blew me away was the white spots. Those are oxygen atoms.

[hrmjustin]

3. Welcome to DU my friend!