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"nemesis" <nam### [at] gmail com> wrote:
> Let's face it, while Hubble kicks much ass, it's pretty much just a huge,
> close-to-perfect lens. In other words, a device to form images by capturing
> light and expanding it. Not nearly as awesome as a device to measure particles
> much smaller than lightwaves and translate those measurements into images... :D
I guess you can look at it in a number of ways. I was thinking about the
physical processes and our knowledge of them. From that standpoint, they're
pretty equally awesome, if you ask me. From an engineering standpoint, though,
I would agree. Atomic force microscopes are a lot cooler than a big,
imperfectly polished mirror. It's pretty incredible that atoms can image atoms
at a subatomic level.
- Ricky
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