First picture of a single molecule

[Theben]

A picture of 3 burned-out lightbulbs. Awesome.

[Krill]

Technically the article is wrong.

[Cort Haus]

Incredibly Blurry Molecules

[Krill]

*shrug* When you take into account timelapse required to take such a picture, it is always going to be blurry. If you were to take the picture in the theoretical amount of time dt then you wouldn't see any of the bonds as the electrons would be stationary. You'd see nothing at all, just the background.

[Kuciwalker]

....... joke, right?

[Krill]

Pretty much. But, ****, it's always going to be blurry because the sodding molecular orbitals don't have any boundaries.

[ZEE]

Krill knows a lot about this kind of stuff and i, for one, would not dare question him on this matter.

[Krill]

I'm waiting for the fizzycysts to start *****ing about it.

Personally, I think the whole idea of praising what they have done is bollocks, as it is just another application of scanning tunneling microscopy. The ****ing theory is over 100 years old already, and a noble prize has already been awarded for the creation of a machine that can scan a surface, one LUMO at a time.

And first picture of a chemical structure? Then what the **** are all the false colour pictures of metal surfaces? Artists' renditions?

The irony is it was a student of hte lirbul arts that ****ed up the article so much.

[Provost Harrison]

That's what the world looks like to a fly with a hangover

[Kitschum]

****

[-Jrabbit]

I think this is pretty damned cool.

[KrazyHorse]

I'm waiting for the fizzycysts to start *****ing about it.

Personally, I think the whole idea of praising what they have done is bollocks, as it is just another application of scanning tunneling microscopy. The ****ing theory is over 100 years old already, and a noble prize has already been awarded for the creation of a machine that can scan a surface, one LUMO at a time.

And first picture of a chemical structure? Then what the **** are all the false colour pictures of metal surfaces? Artists' renditions?

The irony is it was a student of hte lirbul arts that ****ed up the article so much.

AFM is not an application of scanning tunneling microscopy.

[BeBMan]

Now even the molecules are singles

[dannubis]

Yawn... We did this AFM stuff back in 2002 to determine the distrubition of the residual magnetic momentum in electrical steels. You could nicely see the electron "wave" across the surface.

[dannubis]

That's what the world looks like to a fly with a hangover