Comments on: Look at This: Atom Casts a Tiny Shadow

By: Anitta

Anitta — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 14:28:04 +0000

Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lascas — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:45:54 +0000

I would say light is again behaving like a wave…
It all happened before and it will happen again ^^

Carl Fishwick — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:43:46 +0000

The ripples are the airy disk diffraction of the light wave http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airy_disk

DrMatt — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:42:14 +0000

The diffraction pattern is exactly what you would expect for a round obstruction. Search terms: diffraction, obstruction

Georgijs — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:15:17 +0000

I didn’t know that atoms can cast a shadow. This is totally amazing! How I love the Universe.

Nes — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 17:17:21 +0000

@2 Al Cibiades & @3 Mephane
It could also be the electron shell…
there are 7 rings that I can see… so that would match up.

Mephane — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 07:59:17 +0000

@1 Al Cibiades:

I am no physicist, but I would assume this comes from the light that reaches the detector producing interference with itself.

Al Cibiades — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:10:59 +0000

What is the implication of the “wave-like ripples” of alternating red and yellow?

larry bowman — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:48:20 +0000

Amazing! Absolutely amazing!