• Question: Will we ever know what the atom actually looks like?

    Asked by jewlz to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 26 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Philippa Bird

      Philippa Bird answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      Well… we can image atoms. At the place I work you can do that because there are such low vibrations. So they look basically like spheres.
      If you want to know actually how they are build and what their structure is and everything, then no, probably not, as there are loads of complicated quantum affects and stuff so it’s very hard to observe!

    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      We’re always finding out more, so why not?

    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      Pip +1

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