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Rice lab mimics Jupiter's Trojan asteroids inside a single atom

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Rice University physicists have built an accurate model of part of the solar system inside a single atom. In a new paper in Physical Review Letters, Rice's team and collaborators from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Vienna University of Technology showed they could make an electron orbit the atomic nucleus in the same way that Jupiter's Trojan asteroids orbit the sun. The findings uphold a 1920 prediction by physicist Niels Bohr.

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  • Anyone else flashback to the Professor from House of Frightenstein?

  • This might have been the greatest discovery and we don't know for sure yet.

  • This merits my point of view that all in all there's no big and small. Littlest things we know might be the biggest thing we know and that possibly even the smallest stuffs has unlimited universes in them.

  • My future uni! c:

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