Atom Casts a Tiny Shadow

[Potemkin]

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80...a-tiny-shadow/

Look at This: Atom Casts a Tiny Shadow




In the right light, everything casts a shadow—even an atom. A large object creates a shadow by physically blocking the light flying past it, and even a miniscule atom or ion can prevent photons with specific wavelengths from reaching their destinations.

Australian researchers from Griffith University captured a relatively large ytterbium atom in an ion trap, and then hit it with light of a wavelength the ytterbium could absorb. When the light reached the detector, the missing photons that the atom had gobbled up left this negative space: the shadow of a single atom, less than a millionth of a meter in length.

[Ross]

Interesting that there is a circular scatter around the main object .
If the circular pattern is deflected light what are the small
black objects ????? ( I do not see how they could be electrons )


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[Lars]

Originally Posted by Ross

Interesting that there is a circular scatter around the main object .
If the circular pattern is deflected light what are the small
black objects ????? ( I do not see how they could be electrons )

Do God particles leave shadows?

[CanadaSue]

God particles do anything they please.