The World's Most Powerful Microscope

The World's Most Powerful Microscope - KQED QUEST

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15 жыл бұрын

Lawrence Berkeley National Labs just turned on a $27 million electron microscope. Its ability to make images to a resolution of half the width of a hydrogen atom makes it the most powerful microscope in the world.

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@harfast10 5 жыл бұрын

The University of Berkley now uses it to spot microaggressions.

@jamesashons9227 5 жыл бұрын

Sir, thank you for this.

@geckoblu5338 5 жыл бұрын

Harfast You win

@questionableidentity1 5 жыл бұрын

LOLOOLO

@MrDasmaster 5 жыл бұрын

Greatest comment on the internet I have heard in ages. You know brown university wont even let the microscope onto its campus

@ihateyoubit7693 3 жыл бұрын

Haha

@TheRemake1 5 жыл бұрын

Ok it's been pretty much Ten years. What do we have now?

@thelordofthehobbies856 5 жыл бұрын

pewdiepie vs tseries

@dougg1075 5 жыл бұрын

Was thinking the same thing. Let’s see that next version she was talking about

@andromeda4995 4 жыл бұрын

Flat earthers

@tomtennent677 4 жыл бұрын

Hitachi now have a 1.2 million volt EM

@hexagonist23 3 жыл бұрын

@FridayGood more like biden supporters

@NinjaOnANinja 9 жыл бұрын

7:13 The way she says microscope and pops her mouth lol Awesome.

@bignigga60 6 жыл бұрын

The most perfect pop I've ever heard.

@relikvija2 5 жыл бұрын

NinjaOnANinja good eaf

@pjn2001 5 жыл бұрын

confused...

@ahbz1995 5 жыл бұрын

@dmitribrenzo186 4 жыл бұрын

laughing so hard while trying to get my homework done. I haven't laughed this hard in a while.. jesus christ lol.

@abor3dbengawal646 4 жыл бұрын

Life is infinitely small, infinitely big, however you zoom you'll always find it smaller and smaller.

@flamah10n 4 жыл бұрын

Such a simple and awesome comentary!

@mukeshsrivastava2320 3 жыл бұрын

your comments needs 100K likes👍

@easypro 3 жыл бұрын

not sure

@XBGamerX20 2 жыл бұрын

as a wise man once said: "big things can get smaller over time" in like 50 years from now we'd be having those things at a size of a pc with clearer images

@donichiro Жыл бұрын

you think so?

@KaneLillywhite Жыл бұрын

I was thinking exactly the same thing!

@whoeverwhoever400 9 жыл бұрын

this whole world is amazing. we have the mega large universe to mega tiny atom. but who knows, there may be even a larger space outside of the universe and may be another whole new compositions inside a proton or electron if we could continue to zoom in even further and further.

@AbleToCum1 9 жыл бұрын

what if the atom consist of another dimension? a new world? new universe? What if our universe is like an atom to some other beings but we r so tiny we can't see it that way? 0 and 1 is same. infinite 0 and infinite 1, they are all infinite but going in the opposite direction thus there's no actual "number" so 0 and 1 in all in 1 that's infinite

@knightlykin1499 9 жыл бұрын

WhatUwant? We think alike! I've always thought the same thing. Have you ever watched a video on microorganisms and how the organisms have eyes but can only see things it's size clearly, anything bigger to them probably feels like lightyears away and is black matter because their tiny eyes simply can't recieve light from that distance. One time I was smoking a ciggarette and when I exhaled it looked like a nebula cloud, made me wander if the little microrganisms floating in the air saw that as their universe. To me is was only a there for a few seconds, to them it was probably there for thousands of years. Interesting theory. But I feel that we're no microorganisms but rather made up of them. To microorganisms our body is their universe, and to us outer space is our universe. What if the stars are really atoms.

@AbleToCum1 9 жыл бұрын

***** what is consciousness... I wonder. is it our soul or our brain

@knightlykin1499 9 жыл бұрын

WhatUwant? I have this theory that our soul exists inside our brain, and that it's so microscopic even the most powerful microscope can't see it. And when we die, our soul becomes soil with our flesh, and when that soil fertalizes plants our souls are consumed by herbivores, then carnivores eat the herbivores (humans) absorbing us into the humans turning us into sperm again. I doubt it's accurate, but it's interesting.

@AbleToCum1 9 жыл бұрын

***** u blew my mind..

@justinlc1 15 жыл бұрын

I bet they find there is no end. I think we'll find ourselfs looking into different deminsions. Awesome stuff

@ZorgKirill 4 жыл бұрын

4:02 2009: the alluminum alloy they are looking at today could one day be used to build spaceship to Mars 2019: Elon Musk - hold my beer

@garwex2961 3 жыл бұрын

Born too late to explore earth Born too early to explore space Born just in time to explore the nanoworld.

@thebeast5215 3 жыл бұрын

Be proud!

@radishpineapple74 15 жыл бұрын

Beautiful.

@dougg1075 5 жыл бұрын

Video on next version of this microscope?

@jasonmaes6021 5 жыл бұрын

Pond water is one of the favorites because that was the first thing reported on after being studied under a microscope.

@sgtgs42 11 жыл бұрын

Oh man, I just stumbled upon this video. I actually work on the TEAM 0.5 and the CM300 (in the same building). The TEAM 1.0 (the one that was not out yet during this video) is actually a pain in the ass. It just isn't very stable. Fun to see NCEM up here!

@pgo301 11 жыл бұрын

This is what the world needs to focus on, literally and figuratively!!! Instead of creating machines that kill or destroy why not this type of innovation with our currencies?????

@doggopower6326 7 жыл бұрын

Patrick O'Connor 3 years ago but yes I agree

@princeofexcess 15 жыл бұрын

whats awesome is that when we can actually build things like microscopes on nano-scale we can actually see more clearly so it's self improving tech more and more precise tools are needed to make more and more precise tools its awesome :D

@mlk808 7 жыл бұрын

OMG! This video is from 8 years ago, but is looks so actual.

@monsterrateh3685 5 жыл бұрын

What?

@juliscipi 11 жыл бұрын

How very interesting and exciting great video

@christianlorre 8 жыл бұрын

Is that aluminum examination possibly related to using nickel aluminide? I read that that stuff might be the best material in the future. I assume something that powerful will be used for that type of thing.

@terminusest9179 4 жыл бұрын

Particle Style: Atomic Dismantling Jutsu.

@ivanlagrossemoule 12 жыл бұрын

That's awesome. We saw a few similar images in material science courses.

@donichiro 2 жыл бұрын

congrats! First reply after a whole 10 years)))

@EphemeralProductions 4 жыл бұрын

wow that's crazy! 300,000 volts! Do you realize that most of those large power transmission towers you see, carry that much voltage, if not less (in some cases)?! Intense. :)

@RenanMeloC 11 жыл бұрын

You are admirable, sir.

@pstrzel 2 жыл бұрын

It's 2022 now. Can I get this on Amazon yet?

@Vicvines 11 жыл бұрын

thanks

@dredrotten 5 жыл бұрын

Wow! Why havent I seen this before?

@jaythehulkmoeller6648 5 жыл бұрын

Is there any way to increase the definition? It appears as though we are a stones throw away from seeing atomic nuclei like they were right in front of us!!!

@Tibor19921 11 жыл бұрын

Fantastic

@jkerman5113 6 жыл бұрын

high definition, woooow.......

@akt7433 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah at last!!

@lukiepoole6701 4 жыл бұрын

@@akt7433 It's a fake. With fake quantum mechanics and fake "highest resolution". Go look at nemescope.

@cleetorres1351 Жыл бұрын

These are now 199.99 on amazon and the size of a coffee machine. Times change

@danthadon87 10 жыл бұрын

In 15 years this microscope will be the size of a light microscope and cost $50.

@ChoperJoJo 9 жыл бұрын

will be an app for phones (?

@elitebelt 9 жыл бұрын

***** Oh, so you've come from the future?

@Pierreandandre 9 жыл бұрын

elitebelt Wiseass.

@Dravis1995 8 жыл бұрын

+ChoperJoJo You need hardware apparently. Software only cannot make everything.

@-Teus- 8 жыл бұрын

Not true at all. These things can't get much smaller.

@derpestarzt 4 жыл бұрын

This might be a dumb question but how do they see the atoms in the aluminum sample but not the atoms of air surrounding it? how to they prepare the sample to be vacuum and all that?

@chasecollins3263 2 жыл бұрын

Sucking out all the air

@cheers2life578 5 жыл бұрын

Nano particle containing thickness fringes at dark field imaging condition where the (Xia g effective) comes in to play its awesome :)

@wassup986 13 жыл бұрын

Watch this beast turn into the size of a pen in the next few centuries. Like the huge computer which are now calculators for $5.

@listerdave1240 4 жыл бұрын

This is the third video about the Most Powerful Microscope I've watched today, and all three were different ones, the other two being in Japan. One of them is 700 metres long. Well actually I'm not being accurate as this one is the most powerful while the first one I watched was the highest resolution one and the 700m long one was the 'strongest'.

@veerlaff5528 Жыл бұрын

@aluisious 11 жыл бұрын

Electrons sure can go inside atoms. They can interact with any electron in the atom, and some even hit the nucleus. When viewing backscattered electrons, heavier elements are brighter because their larger nuclei redirect more electrons from the beam.

@andreisabe 6 жыл бұрын

For some reason I feel so small after watching this....

@jonescomplete 11 жыл бұрын

Whenever I see spherical aberration I feel like my eyes are backwards...

@14Mentalist 4 жыл бұрын

I love microscopes. Their teach us to respect the smaller things in life.

@louiscypher7090 5 жыл бұрын

Unreal.

@deeppurple883 3 жыл бұрын

Mind bending magic . My bucket list before I die to a buy myself a good microscope and telescope. I missed my calling.

@MrHavetofly 11 жыл бұрын

have they already tried using harmonics to stabilize these metals?

@debjitmukherjee8494 11 жыл бұрын

its very helpful to research scientific work,its last super fast electron microscope in the world,its costly.

@villahermosavlogs 5 жыл бұрын

Can we see the air? My student told me that he can see the air through this microscope? Pls. Reply

@JustinHallPlus 11 жыл бұрын

I'm an American, and I hate to break everyone's bubble, but according to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (Which includes the United States) we are supposed to spell it Aluminium also. You can spell it Aluminum if you want, but I prefer to agree with the Chemists that make decisions on these things.

@bradley5819 5 жыл бұрын

Every home should have one

@scottpitner4298 Жыл бұрын

The math states what the instrument can do so it’s known way ahead of time. The real feat here is the people being able to fine tune with the most delicate of manipulation. People are so clunky when compared to what’s needed here.

@yaidelrodriguezzaldivar6724 6 жыл бұрын

Funny thing that in the future this big microscope will be the size of a regular one.

@justinonps497 5 жыл бұрын

This is what we need to see my weenie

@BEmuslimBE 12 жыл бұрын

@daltonairsofter is it circle?? or we don't know

@conephompany 2 жыл бұрын

So what do I call it Doc, The Intrepid or the Lu Lu Belle?

@magnuswootton7368 5 жыл бұрын

you know what i say to this! "BALLS!!!"

@jamespurks1694 6 жыл бұрын

But how does this compare to the atomic force microscope?

@gokusupersaiya8067 4 жыл бұрын

may i selfie use this micsroscope?

@rlicon1970 5 жыл бұрын

The Golem collections? Lol

@IvCastilla 10 жыл бұрын

At the end of 50's one man invented the nemoscope, able to magnify 3.5 million times. After he dies, the nemoscope dissapear.

@digitalbroadcaster 8 жыл бұрын

+IvCastilla Your source for that info?

5 жыл бұрын

I can magnify unlimited....important thing is resolution...

@Mavrik9000 5 жыл бұрын

The "nemoscope" was a hoax.

@theeraphatsunthornwit6266 5 жыл бұрын

And this is 10 years ago 😲

@XstarkadX 11 жыл бұрын

Interesting

@ChadSmith305 4 жыл бұрын

Shout out to Carl Grapentine (voice at the beginning) Also the voice of the Michigan Wolverines. :)

@dougg1075 5 жыл бұрын

Old microscope = awesome!

@heynowbrian3326 5 жыл бұрын

Damn atoms

@Vicvines 11 жыл бұрын

good

@GumbaverianX 4 жыл бұрын

*Laughs in S20 Ultra*

@andygouberman4903 3 жыл бұрын

People say that there is a very electronic microscope that zooms in 500,000 times and the Atoms and Molecules.

@iLex97 Жыл бұрын

The Nemescope?

@wanbj2 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you almighty algorithm

@clover1796 5 жыл бұрын

9 years ago that means we have one better since its 2019

@uriah9638 5 жыл бұрын

Right!

@johgranger1304 3 жыл бұрын

"...WAS PRODUCED IN HIGH DEFINITION" Forgot how HD was a thing back then LOL.

@aluisious 11 жыл бұрын

Just for grins, and because this is KZfaq, I'm going to argue with you ;) Doesn't actually require that much power to run an electron microscope. The lenses run at a few tens of volts, and a few amps each. Basically a bunch of lightbulbs worth of power. The really thick cable ironically carries little power too, it's mostly insulation to prevent arcing. It's 300k volts, but microamps of current. The actual wires in there are pretty thin.

@saurav1916 2 жыл бұрын

high voltage is required to produce high energy electrons in the electron gun

@Microtherion 10 жыл бұрын

Re Alex Grinkov's comment: I think when Aluminium was first discovered, it was named 'Aluminum'. Later, scientists slightly adjusted the name to Aluminium to 'harmonise' it with elements like Calcium, Radium et cetera. So neither is really 'right/wrong'. American scientists stuck with the original name for some reason (traditionalism or deference to the discoverer) and Europeans preferred the version that fits the model of other elements. I'm British so I say 'Aluminium', but Americans could claim 'Aluminum' to be more precise. It's a bit like (British) 'got' versus (American) 'gotten'. In that particular case, the Yanks are right: forgot/forgotten, begot/begotten, got/gotten. I'm still not going to say it though :)

@noneofyourbeeswax01 5 жыл бұрын

"American scientists stuck with the original name for some reason " - because "Aluminium" was just too difficult for them. Like "nuclear". It is _not_ "nookilla".

@edwardmurrow84 12 жыл бұрын

lol the fancy microscope was housed behind a wooden panel @2:05

@Vicvines 11 жыл бұрын

that's a technical argument and not a flame argument

@aluisious 11 жыл бұрын

Gamma rays don't really have smaller wavelengths than 300kev electrons anyway. Imaging small things is about wavelength.

@s4ss1n 5 жыл бұрын

what is this aluminem they keep talking about ? is it like aluminium ?

@PCpete101 14 жыл бұрын

I wondering, what are those things at 3:17.

@dimaisatree 4 жыл бұрын

What I wanna know is how much does it zoom in? I know you can buy microscopes online that zoom in to x2500, this one must be in the hundreds of thousands I’m guessing..

@saurav1916 2 жыл бұрын

about 100000x

@andreisabe 6 жыл бұрын

Now I know what spherical aberrration!!! at last!

@NiGGaZtcz 5 жыл бұрын

hello after 10 years. so, do we have something even more powerful nowadays?

@tomtennent677 4 жыл бұрын

Check out Hitachi highest resolution electron microscope.

@lukiepoole6701 4 жыл бұрын

The technology lost, stolen. So-called highest resolution is merely a FRAUD. Money wasted on shits, craps. Governmental control, illuminati, control maniacs, pedophiles, annunaki, rotchilds, pharma etc etc. When are you people going to wake up? The TRUE highest resolution atomic mircoscope : NEMESCOPE

@thebeast5215 3 жыл бұрын

@@lukiepoole6701 troll

@lukiepoole6701 3 жыл бұрын

@@thebeast5215 Of course you are going to assume the truth teller as "troll". Don't reply if you can't handle the truth.

@LazsalzariRomnzevroskki 11 жыл бұрын

wow I always thought carbon bonds (the typical line between one carbon and another) were just a representation of atoms combination but it turns out those lines exist O.o .... ?

@nickcalingo3309 4 жыл бұрын

1:53 Oh come on why does it have to be me!?

@BEmuslimBE 13 жыл бұрын

is the shape of atoms Hexagonal???? wow

@sajjaddbaloch 4 жыл бұрын

👍❤

@ewaldlessing 6 жыл бұрын

cool

@axel714 12 жыл бұрын

rife universal microscope is real deal

@mistycloud4455 2 жыл бұрын

A.G.I Will be man's last invention

@falconoilcompany 8 жыл бұрын

I didn't see too much of the scope, because there was too much time wasted on other things. If you do make any more documentaries could you please get a voiceover that is listener friendly.

@madeonearth3429 5 жыл бұрын

Shut up it was ok. But jeah do som more videos!

@tufaznail 11 жыл бұрын

What can you learn when you look at blurry circles all day?

@DymaxionWorld 14 жыл бұрын

4 bounds is in 3D when carbon form a tetrahedra.

@innertubez 5 жыл бұрын

Can you imagine if we could make a Planck microscope? We could see all the way down to the smallest levels of our physical reality. And all the way down there, the particles would be stamped with tiny text reading "Made in China."

@digitalis303 11 жыл бұрын

I do not believe it is possible to "see" an electron under any magnification, certainly not with electron microscopes since they have to have a smaller beam than the object.

@CyberAmir 9 жыл бұрын

whats the name of the microscope?

@peepox71 7 жыл бұрын

Looks Like Titan series from FEI

@harfast10 5 жыл бұрын

Frank.

@noneofyourbeeswax01 5 жыл бұрын

It's a Scanning electron Microscope not a pet dog.

@harfast10 5 жыл бұрын

Duuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

@AeonFlexMusic 11 жыл бұрын

I'm having trouble, has an electron ever been visually captured?

@noneofyourbeeswax01 5 жыл бұрын

As they pointed out, it is impossible to see atoms regardless how powerful a lens and how strong a light source, because in the visible light spectrum the wavelengths are just too long to be able to interact with something as tiny as an atom. By accelerating electrons however (which themselves are subatomic particles) one can fire a stream of them at structures that small and they resultant information can be screened on a monitor in visual form in a similar manner as Sonar, X-rays or Infrared Images.

@consis 5 жыл бұрын

No, never. We do not yet know what an electron is or its appearance

@TadaGanIarracht 11 жыл бұрын

Why doesn't everybody go see what the IUPAC says about "Aluminum". You know, the world authority that names all elements and has the final say over these things... It's ok if Americans want to use miles, inches, gallons and other seriously archaic measuring systems. They can even call aluminium aluminum. But the rest of the world, and the scientific community at large will continue doing things the best way possible. You know, the right way. :)

@thextravagant1459 4 жыл бұрын

This video was made when I turned 1 day old

@thebeast5215 3 жыл бұрын

@Morten CHUNG April fools lmao

@thebeast5215 3 жыл бұрын

@Morten CHUNG btw it isn’t even April 1st. If he was one day old on March 31, then he was born 1 day ago, on March 30.

@Garagem28customs 4 жыл бұрын

27 million microscope and 20 dollar monitor..

@yakir11114 11 жыл бұрын

science is awsome. i wonder if one day they could build gamma ray microscope to actually see INSIDE an atom. that would be cool wouldnt it?

@jaythehulkmoeller6648 5 жыл бұрын

Why are quantum particles displayed as spheres? Gravity should have little to no effect at that level, any number of shapes would be expected?

@DavidWoroner 11 жыл бұрын

This is so brilliant, that I feel like a bug. I wish I could see more of the component shown in the video that demonstrates the orbitals acting in a kinetic fashion under pressure! There is no doubt that there is an amazing amount of potential energy within these structures and that when we as a civilization finally un-numb our minds and figure out how to harness this potential, we will no longer think that UFO's are magic or aberrations of the atmospherics. We are at a precipice... ;-)

@kingofgoldnessr9364 9 жыл бұрын

Jesus christ, atoms!

@NoBody-kw5tq 6 жыл бұрын

3:40 is that a Graphene??

@drahunter213 4 жыл бұрын

1:38 Haha little people

@ManiacMcgeee 15 жыл бұрын

If there is no end to the micro world im sure there will be many many suprises for us to find in the future! Just as we do not know what lies beyond the furthest reaches of the universe!

@notmetoofor150 6 жыл бұрын

PitFiend2001 HELLO I am from the future and you were spot on quantum physics made life weird as hell!