Roundest objects in the world created

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Researchers have created very smooth spheres from a cylinder of silicon.

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[MadCanada597]

I have a basketball that would blow their minds.

Its round too.

[grendelee]

I always thought that if you were to look at something absolutely perfectly round, it would do funny things to your eyes and brain, never seeing something that round before, without flaws. I think it does, but it probably would work better in person.

[Tom Morgan]

No sorry

[Jimmy Fransen]

So....my soccerball isn't round?

[talon24]

i want my 3 min 26 sec back, keep your round gargbage

[Xolroc Lowell]

I completely agree that this is awesome in its own strange way, but I have to ask....

Why?

[Jmkxyz822]

Count its atoms. 0_0

[EastBayFM]

Actually it was shipped to russia to be flown to space to be grown in the vacuum of space, not germany.

[Ben Wartooth]

This is nothing, wait until they see my left testicle.

[Rikard Bengtsson]

The small-scale roughness of the balls varies by 0.3 nanometres, but their curvature varies by 60 to 70 nanometres. That's four to five meters scaled up to Earth's size. A four meter high Mount Everest and a five meter deep Mariana Trench. ;-)

[Rikard Bengtsson]

reminds me of the process used in making silicon wafers, you know the stuff that you makes ic's such as cpu's out of.