{"id":3922466,"date":"2025-10-22T14:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/a-seating-chart-for-atoms-helps-locate-their-positions-in-materials\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:03:04","slug":"a-seating-chart-for-atoms-helps-locate-their-positions-in-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/a-seating-chart-for-atoms-helps-locate-their-positions-in-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#8216;seating chart&#8217; for atoms helps locate their positions in materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>If you think of a single atom as a grain of sand, then a wavelength of visible light\u2014which is a thousand times larger than the atom&#8217;s width\u2014is comparable to an ocean wave. The light wave can dwarf an atom, missing it entirely as it passes by. This gulf in size has long made it impossible for scientists to see and resolve individual atoms using optical microscopes alone.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-10-seating-atoms-positions-materials.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think of a single atom as a grain of sand, then a wavelength of visible light\u2014which is a thousand times larger than the atom&#8217;s width\u2014is comparable to an ocean wave. The light wave can dwarf an atom, missing it entirely as it passes by. This gulf in size has long made it impossible [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3922466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3922466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}