Exploring Atomic Structure and Imaging Techniques

the two atom worldviews. There's the atom of the scriptures, which is the story that all

traditional people, all indigenous people, all living beings were a creation or maybe a co-creation

of a supernatural spiritual being interacting with what we call the earth.

And there is a wisdom behind it, there is a direction, and the species are distinct.

They don't morph or evolve one into the other. And the other, which is a mockery of the first,

so they call it the atom theory, A-T-O-M. Finally, these guys show us a picture proving once and for

all that there is no such thing as the atom of the scriptures, which is the story that

all traditional people, all living beings were a creation or maybe a co-creation of a supernatural

that you can actually see an atom.

So there it is.

How did they do this?

Because we, of course, always want to know the methods section.

The image shows the atomic structure

of Praseodymium Orthoscandate

at magnification of 100 million.

The level of clarity was achieved using a technique

called Tychography.

Rather than photographing atoms directly,

Tychography fires electrons at the sample

and maps how they scatter.

As the beams move,

computers reconstruct the atomic structure.

Hang on a minute.

You mean they have to put this through a computer

and they get some shooting of alleged electrons?

And then the computer reconstructs this into an atomic structure from the interference pattern so they're not actually seeing it.

Wait a minute, they said this was a picture.

Nope, it's a computer reconstruction.