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MIT Physicists Build World's First Fermion Microscope

Zothecula writes: Researchers working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) claim to have created a method to better observe fermions – the sub-atomic building blocks of matter – by constructing a microscope capable of viewing them in groups of a thousand at a time. A laser technique is used to herd the fermions into a viewing area and then freeze them in place so all of the captured particles can be imaged simultaneously.

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  1. Re:rule 34 applies by sconeu · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's because they've been listening to Barry-White-ions.

    Most scientists don't know about them because you have to search in lower frequency ranges.

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    General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.