nemesis <nam### [at] gmail com> 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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