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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. Film electrons with photons by shadowofwind · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    and you're using a very high resolution camera.

    Film photons with electrons, and its another confusing /. title.

  2. Re:WTF? by afxgrin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    lol I'd mod you up if I had the points man, just for drunken /. posting.

  3. Protons with electrons? I can see the tabloids now by T+Murphy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Exclusive photos of photons caught mingling with electrons", "Quantum sex scandal!", "Proton threatens divorce, electron believed gone after excitement with photon"

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  4. I heard that the first scientist that looked at it by NotSoHeavyD3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That his head exploded. He apparently looked at he picture, said "Wow, now I understand how a photo is simultaneously can be a wave and a particle" and then when his brain tried to rectify that paradox his head blew up. Services are at 10am on Tuesday.

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