OT: For all the scientists, statisticians and anyone with a sense of humor

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Reminds me of every experiment I did as an undergrad, and for that
matter about 9 in every 10 experiments I've done in grad school. The
only thing that changes is the cost of the equipment - in undergrad I
"disproved" hundreds of years of science using a $10 microscope. These
days I do it with a multi-million dollar microscope...

Bryan

Thus spake Bryan Heit <bjheit@NOSPAMucalgary.ca> :

>Reminds me of every experiment I did as an undergrad, and for that
>matter about 9 in every 10 experiments I've done in grad school. The
>only thing that changes is the cost of the equipment - in undergrad I
>"disproved" hundreds of years of science using a $10 microscope. These
>days I do it with a multi-million dollar microscope...
>
>Bryan

Ever looked at a molecule? Carol has an electron microscope at work
that let's her look at silicon molecules. It's really neat to see
pictures of blown out microprocessors with holes in the sub nonometer
region. And incredible to look at a fuzzball.

--
dillon

I didn't climb to the top of the
food chain to become a vegetarian.

Dillon Pyron wrote:
> Ever looked at a molecule? Carol has an electron microscope at work
> that let's her look at silicon molecules. It's really neat to see
> pictures of blown out microprocessors with holes in the sub nonometer
> region. And incredible to look at a fuzzball.

No, I'm using light microscopy, not EM. I have no idea what an EM runs
for, but our fancy fluorescent scopes cost from between $0.5mil and
$3mil depending on which one you're talking about. Can't see individual
molecules, but we are visualizing things at the very edge of what
physics allow. So I get as close to seeing molecules as you can get
using light...

Some of me fellow lab monkeys use EM, but I don't think any of them have
gone down to the molecule level. Closest I've seen our lab do was an
image where you could sort of make out individual strands of DNA in the
center of a cell.

Bryan

In article <89a972lhtulapo1slraea14k7a3c6us0js@4ax.com>, Dillon Pyron
<dmpyronINVALID@austin.rr.com> wrote:

€ Thus spake Bryan Heit <bjheit@NOSPAMucalgary.ca> :
€
€ >Reminds me of every experiment I did as an undergrad, and for that
€ >matter about 9 in every 10 experiments I've done in grad school. The
€ >only thing that changes is the cost of the equipment - in undergrad I
€ >"disproved" hundreds of years of science using a $10 microscope. These
€ >days I do it with a multi-million dollar microscope...
€ >
€ >Bryan
€
€ Ever looked at a molecule? Carol has an electron microscope at work
€ that let's her look at silicon molecules.

Well, sorta...


It's really neat to see
€ pictures of blown out microprocessors with holes in the sub nonometer
€ region.


"Blown out" and "sub-nanometer" are pretty much exclusionary.

But if you'd like pictures of miniature blasts in the 1~2 uM range,
we'd be happy to oblige.


And incredible to look at a fuzzball.