IBM Research Creates Microscope With 100 Million Times Finer Resolution Than Current MRI
Quoting the the release, "The technique was applied to a sample of tobacco mosaic virus and achieved resolution down to four nanometers. (One nanometer is one billionth of a meter; a tobacco mosaic virus is 18 nanometers across.)"
We may not be able to visually see too far beyond the limits imposed by the wavelength of visible light but computers and thing they drive are opening up a smaller and smaller world that may only be limited by quantum uncertainty in the end. If they break that barrier I have to get a new physics book and lot more.[gc]
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I hope allowing comments should give me more feedback an allow me to follow a better path that interests more people.
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