Name: Anonymous 2013-05-02 2:37
Scientists create 'world's smallest movie' with atoms
IBM scientists unveiled what they called "the world's smallest movie", which tracks moving atoms magnified 100 million times.
The film, A Boy and His Atom, depicts a character named Atom who befriends a single atom and follows him on a journey of dancing and bouncing that helps explain the science behind data storage.
"Capturing, positioning and shaping atoms to create an original motion picture on the atomic-level is a precise science and entirely novel," said IBM scientist Andreas Heinrich. To make the movie, the atoms were moved with an IBM-invented scanning tunnelling microscope, a device which earned its inventors a Nobel Prize. - AFP.
IBM scientists unveiled what they called "the world's smallest movie", which tracks moving atoms magnified 100 million times.
The film, A Boy and His Atom, depicts a character named Atom who befriends a single atom and follows him on a journey of dancing and bouncing that helps explain the science behind data storage.
"Capturing, positioning and shaping atoms to create an original motion picture on the atomic-level is a precise science and entirely novel," said IBM scientist Andreas Heinrich. To make the movie, the atoms were moved with an IBM-invented scanning tunnelling microscope, a device which earned its inventors a Nobel Prize. - AFP.