What do atoms ‘look like’? Well, that depends on how you think about visibility.
Atoms are the building blocks of matter, yet we can’t ‘see’ them. Despite this, scientists have been able to infer what atoms look like based on their properties and behavior. In the video, we will explore how atoms appear and the evidence that supports these theories.
In 1582, the German town of Bedburg was ravaged by a violent and mysterious creature. After untold bloodshed, the townsfolk took up arms and hunted the monster down. What they found was something out of our deepest nightmares, and entirely too close to home.
Video Transcript of the video by Chad Orzel: The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is one of a handful of ideas from quantum physics to expand into general pop culture. It says that you can never simultaneously know the exact position and the exact speed of an object and shows up as a metaphor in everything from…
