Not too long ago, a teacher at my school demonstrated a
scanning tunneling microscope. Pretty cool stuff, that. These are the kind of pictures you can make.
Somewhat related, although not at an atomic level yet, producers of integrated circuits sometimes find it funny to imprint artwork into the silicon. When scanning integrated circuits, you'll find things like this.
Quote: "I wonder how long t'll before we can see the actual components of the atoms themselves."
You mean the electrons and stuff? That's the thing, you can't. The idea that electrons are on top of a shell rotating around protons and neutrons is just a model. A very inaccurate and false model.
It's impossible to determine the position
and the direction of an electron at the same time.
Don't know how accurate the model that I know is, but I learned the position of electrons can only be determined through fields of probability (p-fields and n-fields, or whatever those are called).
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