Wait, so 'eyes in the dark' yes, but 'one moon circles' is wrong? Those aliens weren't that bright after all, I guess.
I don't understand. Wasn't this 2+ years ago? Very cool, though.
Oh, ha. It showed up in my FB feed, and then people re-shared it, so I assumed we were all excited. My actual thought was that it looks just like a textbook illustration of what it might look like.
It's impressive that something we only arrived at an understanding of through deep inference has proved to really look like that. (I thought we had already gotten real glimpses of atoms, but maybe those were bigger ones.)
Been a long white but I thought the 1s state didn't have so many humps. (Dromedary or Bactrian?)
O, physics mineshaft, why so many?
What you're looking at is the first direct observation of an atom's electron orbital -- an atom's actual wave function! To capture the image, researchers utilized a new quantum microscope -- an incredible new device that literally allows scientists to gaze into the quantum realm.
Wait a second here. Ant-Man led me to believe that the quantum realm looks completely different from this.
What you're looking at is the first direct observation of an atom's electron orbital -- an atom's actual wave function!
What does the Copenhagen interpretation say about me looking at a photo of a wave function?