Watch Atoms of Gold on FeO Move Under an Electron Microscope

[rcfirdy]

It's a hoax.

[Omatollis]

what are the moving bulges being cuased by? is the gold reacting to something?

[Mist3RC0ndom]

@Omatollis yes the gold is reacting to the heat.

[TheTilemaster123999]

so haw come the big one dident get bigger?

[heldgop]

@TheTilemaster123999 it did!

look closely, the small blob gets sucked on the big blob. its hard to see because the atoms from the small blob realign themself to the crytal structure of the big chunck, so the round blob becomes a few additional layers on the big blob.

[zestydude87]

So these are the atoms themselves?

[craigbanbury]

@zestydude87

no theyre just small particles of gold. atoms can only be viewed with electron microscopes etc

[97killsUnbreakable]

atoma aat 5nm........? ohhh i see what was happened?

[pedro0550]

seek in GOOGLE... flickr.com/photos/ibm_research­_zurich/3813960741/

[triclops20]

If you would look carefully at the scale of the measurement (bottom left) and take a rough estimate of size, there are approximately 1.0 x 10^5 (100,000) atoms of Gold in that "blob."

[Dayton414Rhoten]

What causes them to move?

[SoulShepherd84]

@Dayton414Rhoten The heat.  I think.

[shoooshify]

LOL!

[freemanx2x]

What force pulls them together?

[dekoomers]

0:17 da fuck.

[Chikoha]

This was magnified by about 25.4 billion x

[shortlk]

This is why we need the 10 trillion frame per second camera and femtosecond laser pulses. Would be sweet!!!

[actonme12]

thats really cool i wanna know what type of micro scope is that?? obviously its a really good one since your viewing atoms

[danielth]

Very cool. Was there a cut in the video during the merging?

[SoulShepherd84]

@danielth I think it is a combination of single pictures taken over a period of time. Current technology allows for a very low frame rate. It is why the video appears jumpy throughout. One day, we will have the technology to view at a higher frame rate and see more clearly how the two 'blobs' merged.

[infinitesimotel]

Thats the amount of gold in the average wedding ring.

[PayrollTips]

How fast did the two particles merge together? Are the small dots on the screen atoms or just screen resolution? Are my atoms moving like this in my body? Interesting video needs more info in the description...

[avelione]

OM NOM NOM NOM

[avelione]

Are you able to make a reaalllyyyy slow motion of this kind of reactions? So we could see how they actually merge instead of just dissapearing? ;)

[AllForTheGame]

reunited and it feels so good

[djsufferthing]

Lol, I just started humming "Beware of the blob."

[123skoti]

brassiere??? O_o

[Oleander410]

Jesus, the top comments are completely retarded.

(Watch my foot get shoved into my mouth when this gets positive votes)

[TheLawnWanderer]

dam that rat looking thing just got ATE,

DAMN NATURE YOU SCARY.

[ishingo69]

I think the fact that this looks alot like living cells is a testament to the ideas of string theory, in that at the very core, everything is made of the same stuff.

[drobama420]

isnt it crazy how atoms are always moving except for wen yu measure then under a microscope?

[infinitesimotel]

@drobama420 Im undertain about that :P

[PicoScientific]

When you are watching "the blob (kind of looks like a cell-- but it is not) it is actually a grouping of atoms (look closely-- the atoms look almost like pixels). This kind of imaging was simply not possible a couple of years ago.

[dudefrombelgium]

@PicoScientific

But why did the other blob dissapear?

[Xerdocreisson]

@dudefrombelgium They merged, have you ever seen two water bubbles merge when they get close? It's the same thing.

[inurfac]

@PicoScientific would that mean that the other little pixels that surround the blob that i see are the atoms of air?

[ConnorXV]

@inurfac no theyre atoms of Fe and O bonded together to make iron oxide.

[MrKandamo]

@PicoScientific so, can they look cromatine or DNA-s morfology?

[serendipicus]

@PicoScientific Here is a video of electron movement you may appreciate. youtubecom/watch?v=ofp-OHIq6Wo­&feature=related

[TheMohguy]

so this is what an atom looks like looks no differant than a cell well that was a disapointment

[avelione]

The smaller particle was gone in a second! How didi it happen? Is this video sped up or a real-time recording?

[Core5]

@avelione things at the atomic scale happen in billionths of a second. Don't blink next time :p

[avelione]

@Core5 so probably they don't have a slo-mo of this ? :p and if they merge so fast why it takes so much time for them to get closer each other? like they were dating!

[Core5]

@avelione I suppose the forces which make them move are weaker than the intermolecular forces that hold them together.

[avelione]

@Core5 Nooo.. they're just dating and thay're shy in the beginning... and then there comes a sudden kiss! ;) well, I'd love to see this moment when they merge, but I suppose it's impossible to slow down a video about a billion times... :| damn!

[jdw99]

@avelione They merge so quickly because the attractive force is inversely proportional to the distance between them. So, the closer they get, the more strongly they are attracted, forming a positive feedback loop of increasing acceleration.