{"id":644,"date":"2006-08-11T09:15:48","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T09:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=644"},"modified":"2006-08-11T09:15:48","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T09:15:48","slug":"now_in_atomovision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/08\/11\/now_in_atomovision\/","title":{"rendered":"Now in Atom-o-vision!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/sharpest-thing.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The sharpest manmade thing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/sharpest-thing-thumb.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"362\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re looking at one of the most awesome photographs I think I&#8217;ve ever seen&#8230; that big mass of thingies that look like titanium ping-pong balls (and which reminds me of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memory-alpha.org\/en\/wiki\/Fesarius\">starship <i>Fesarius<\/i><\/a> from that old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memory-alpha.org\/en\/wiki\/The_Corbomite_Maneuver\">episode<\/a> of <i>Star Trek<\/i>) is the tip of a tungsten needle, supposedly the sharpest object made by man, under extreme magnification. So extreme, in fact, that each of those little ping-pong balls is in fact an individual atom. That&#8217;s right, this is a photograph of freakin&#8217; <i>atoms<\/i>. I find that simply astounding&#8230; almost as astounding as the fact that the technology to take these photographs has been around since 1951. Isn&#8217;t science amazing, kids?<\/p>\n<p>The photo originated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aip.org\/png\/2006\/264.htm\">here<\/a>; details of the technique used to take the photo are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ornl.gov\/info\/ornlreview\/rev28-4\/text\/atoms.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re looking at one of the most awesome photographs I think I&#8217;ve ever seen&#8230; that big mass of thingies that look like titanium ping-pong balls (and which reminds me of the starship Fesarius from that old episode of Star Trek) is the tip of a tungsten needle, supposedly the sharpest object made by man, under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esoterica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}