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Caltech Scientists Film Photons With Electrons

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the tiny-pictures dept.

al0ha writes "Techniques recently invented by researchers at the California Institute of Technology which allow the real-time, real-space visualization of fleeting changes in the structure of nanoscale matter have been used to image the evanescent electrical fields produced by the interaction of electrons and photons, and to track changes in atomic-scale structures."

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  1. Let me be the first to say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I didn't see that coming.

    (C'mon! It's funny! Photons! Femtoseconds! Ahh.. fergetaboutit.)

    1. Re:Let me be the first to say... by clegrand · · Score: 4, Funny

      I don't get it.. that kinda humor is not fermi.

  2. Re:Videos or it didn't happen! by VanGarrett · · Score: 5, Funny

    Am I just not looking hard enough?

    Try squinting. It's all so very small scale.

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  3. WTF? by oldhack · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's Friday, I'm drunk, but what the FUCK?! I can't grasp..

    Fuck. CalTech. Guess them nerds do know what they're doing.

    I met nerds from CalTech and MIT. MIT nerds got nothing on CalTech nerds. When it comes to physics, I'd go with CalTech nerds. p. The nerd from my Ivy League school just don't measure up, including me...

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    1. Re:WTF? by oldhack · · Score: 5, Funny

      Fuck you mods. Seriously. Ivy League physics depts don't measure up to CalTech and MIT.

      Ok, that probably is irrelevant to this story, but fuck, when did relevancy ever mattered here?

      That's right. Fuck you. Fuck all'o you. I'm screwing a married theatre major on the side.

      OK. Screw you losers.

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    2. Re:WTF? by maxume · · Score: 2, Funny

      Are you insinuating that he may be in reasonable physical condition?

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    3. Re:WTF? by Thing+1 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Fuck all'o you. I'm screwing a married theatre major on the side.

      Hint: it may be more fun to use the front (or the back) of her.

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    4. Re:WTF? by oldhack · · Score: 2, Funny

      God damn it, I need karma, not this bogus "funny" mods.

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  4. Re:This is what quantum computing needs. by maxwell+demon · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm confident that its more likely that I'll see a stable, bug and exploit free version of Windows, from MS, under a BSD license, with no charge, in my life time than it is that my children will see a working quantum computer.

    Well, there are working quantum computers. They successfully factor the number 15. The problem is, normal computers are already quite efficient at factorizing 15. As are elementary school students. :-)

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  5. Re:Videos or it didn't happen! by TubeSteak · · Score: 2, Funny

    There are two tiny pictures there, but no videos, and no links other than to another press release which also doesn't have videos.

    Am I just not looking hard enough?

    The videos and links are there, but every time you look for them, you change the reality of their existence.
    I suggest blindly clicking around the page until you hear the video playing.

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