The lads over at IBM have made the world’s smallest movie by messing around with a load of atoms. It’s pretty cool.
If you remember anything from you’re first year science class, it’s probably the fact that atom’s are the basic building blocks for all kinds of matter. They’re incredibly small and you can only see them through a special type of microscope.
Well, that hasn’t stopped IMB from creating the world’s smallest movie using atoms.
Check it out:
Here’s what IBM has to say about the movie on YouTube: “You’re about to see the movie that holds the Guinness World Records™ record for the World’s Smallest Stop-Motion Film.
“The ability to move single atoms — the smallest particles of any element in the universe — is crucial to IBM’s research in the field of atomic memory. But even nanophysicists need to have a little fun.
“In that spirit, IBM researchers used a scanning tunneling microscope to move thousands of carbon monoxide molecules (two atoms stacked on top of each other), all in pursuit of making a movie so small it can be seen only when you magnify it 100 million times.
“A movie made with atoms.”
You can see how exactly the movie was made in the video below…
