nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> The microscopic world is about as fascinating as the biggest universe 
> structures and I wonder if in fact they are not the same.  As in, once 
> we devise a sufficiently accurate device for seeing further we realize 
> our universe is just a grain of dust and inside a grain of dust lies a 
> whole universe...

  Idyllic, but not very scientifical.

  You cannot "see" an individual atom because the wavelength of visible
light is too large. It's also a misconception (cleared about 100 years
ago) that subatomic particles are spherical (or have any definite shape
for that matter).

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                                                          - Warp

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