Posted on 10/09/2018 7:29:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin
[R]esearchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter are reporting "ultrabright" electron sources with sufficient brightness to literally light up atomic motions in real timeat a time scale of 100 femtoseconds, making these sources particularly relevant to chemistry because atomic motions occur in that window of time.
After seeing the first atomic movies of phase transitions in bulk thin films using high-energy (100 kilovolt) electron bunches, the researchers wondered if they could achieve atomic resolution of surface reactionsoccurring within the first few monolayers of materialsto gain a better understanding of surface catalysis.
So they devised a low-energy (1-2 kilovolt) time-resolved electron diffraction concept of using fiber optics for miniaturization and the ability to stretch the electron pulse, then apply streak camera technology to potentially obtain subpicosecond temporal resolutiona difficult feat within the low-electron energy regime.
Of the myriad possible nuclear configurations, the group discovered that the system collapses to just a few key modes that direct chemistry and that a reduction in dimensionality that occurs in the transition state or barrier-crossing region can be inferred. "We see it directly with the first atomic movies of ring closing, electron transfer and bond breaking," said Miller.
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Try density functional theory.
lol
Electrons (green) reshape into tilted pulses by interference with a beam of laser-generated terahertz radiation (red). Credit: Baum
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Are they talking about taking films of Jello in motion?
#3. “Femotseconds”? Have the feminazis taken over “time” too?
Maybe that’s how fast Maxine Waters speaks feminazi hate speech or is that how fast Hillary slurs her words?
Let’s see. You have Nematodes and now “Femotodes”. Are they in the same Genus or Species? After looking at the Kavanaugh protestors, I think we discovered a new form of alien life.
#23. Looks like an Arp or Mondrian painting.
lol
That’s funny :)
Ah, to hack Webster’s before the next print :)
How glorious it would be to change some definitions.
I think the green bowling balls are electrons.
Maybe not, but if so, holy sh*t.
Thanks BenLurkin.
I can tell you that I’m aware that the Bohr’s model is wrong about how electrons relate to the atom. I also am aware that how we think about electrons still vex well learned physicists today.
I’m just hoping this information will give us better models as to the nature of electrons.
Do you have a good animation on electrons?
Suppose we could design a “quarkoscope” or a “neutrinoscope”...would we be able to visualize atoms and electrons? And plot their locations and speed to very high degree?
I just want to know how many turtles the world sits upon.
10 turtles?
Googleplex turtles?
McConnell turtles?
You measure the electron’s SPEED.
I will measure the POSIT9ON.
We will compare notes.
But if you now know both, speed & position, will you now suddenly vanish from existence
And for a historical reference of what's holding up the world, you should read Enoch. But then it predates the Almighty's last revision.
Electrons are strange indeed, but then so is gravity, and so are many other physical and spiritual entities. It's really a weird world we live in, when you stop and think about it.
Our tendency to proclaim we're on the verge of discovering a theory for everything, just goes to prove Einstein's theory of human stupidity being infinite, but then we continue to learn and seek truth and that "may be" the human race's saving grace. :)
But as a precaution, I hope someone is building a huge monolith somewhere with our current knowledge encoded, otherwise it'd be a tremendous shame to lose it all, gained at such lengths of both time and effort. Maybe the moon would be a great location, and a structure large enough to be viewed from earth through a glass lens perhaps?
Which reminds me of the question of time being quantized or not.
the new Turboencabulator should speed up the process...
this explains how to turbo it up...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MXW0bx_Ooq4
I was thinking about creating my own video on prognistiastics, but, it might be too complicated and complex for even the genius minds. Maybe before I die I’ll do at least a schemistoprophy of it
excellent!
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