{"id":11145,"date":"2013-05-01T12:21:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T19:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=11145"},"modified":"2013-05-01T12:21:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T19:21:06","slug":"a-boy-and-his-atom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/01\/a-boy-and-his-atom\/","title":{"rendered":"A Boy and His Atom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ready for your close-up? I mean, really close up. IBM has <a href=\"http:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/press\/us\/en\/pressrelease\/40970.wss\">released the world&#8217;s highest-resolution movie:<\/a> an animated short film in which what you&#8217;re seeing are individual atoms, manipulated by a scanning tunneling microscope. Here is &#8220;A Boy and His Atom&#8221;:<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"A Boy And His Atom: The World&amp;#039;s Smallest Movie\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_oSCX78-8-q0\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/oSCX78-8-q0\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oSCX78-8-q0\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT1M34S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2013-04-30T14:29:02Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_oSCX78-8-q0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/oSCX78-8-q0\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">A Boy And His Atom: The World&#039;s Smallest Movie<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/oSCX78-8-q0\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/oSCX78-8-q0\/0.jpg\" alt=\"A Boy And His Atom: The World&amp;#039;s Smallest Movie\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"You&#039;re about to see the movie that holds the Guinness World Records\u2122 record for the World&#039;s Smallest Stop-Motion Film (see how it was made at http:\/\/youtu.be\/xA4QWwaweWA). The ability to move single atoms \u2014 the smallest particles of any element in the universe \u2014 is crucial to IBM&#039;s research in the field of atomic memory. But even nanophysicists need to have a little fun. In that spirit, IBM researchers used a scanning tunneling microscope to move thousands of carbon monoxide molecules (two atoms stacked on top of each other), all in pursuit of making a movie so small it can be seen only when you magnify it 100 million times. A movie made with atoms. Learn more about atomic memory, data storage and big data at http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/madewithatoms\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>And here is an explanation of how it was made:<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Moving Atoms: Making The World&amp;#039;s Smallest Movie\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_xA4QWwaweWA\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/xA4QWwaweWA\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xA4QWwaweWA\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT4M56S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2013-04-30T14:29:02Z\" \/><\/div><meta itemprop=\"accessibilityFeature\" content=\"captions\" \/><div id=\"lyte_xA4QWwaweWA\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/xA4QWwaweWA\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Moving Atoms: Making The World&#039;s Smallest Movie<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xA4QWwaweWA\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/xA4QWwaweWA\/0.jpg\" alt=\"Moving Atoms: Making The World&amp;#039;s Smallest Movie\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"How did IBM researchers move all those atoms to make the world&#039;s smallest movie? This short behind-the-scenes documentary takes you inside the lab. Meet the scientists, see how they made a movie with atoms, and find out more about their research in the field of atomic memory and data storage. See the world&#039;s smallest movie at http:\/\/youtu.be\/oSCX78-8-q0. Learn more about atomic memory, data storage and big data at http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/madewithatoms\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ready for your close-up? I mean, really close up. IBM has released the world&#8217;s highest-resolution movie: an animated short film in which what you&#8217;re seeing are individual atoms, manipulated by a scanning tunneling microscope. Here is &#8220;A Boy and His Atom&#8221;: And here is an explanation of how it was made:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11147,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11145\/revisions\/11147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}