Unboxing a $1.5m Microscope - Sixty Symbols
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- Опубліковано 10 січ 2022
- Physicist Professor Philip Moriarty takes delivery of a new atomic force microscope - see his accompanying blog post here: muircheartblog.wpcomstaging.c...
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• The Sound of Atoms Bon...
• World's Smallest Chris...
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I love that the 30 grand bottle of helium is kept in a draw with a broken handle.
14:00
They blew their budget on the helium, no new desk draws for them.
That's uni research lab for ya.
they definitely needed that bottle fast at some point :D
The bottle is actually empty as they've used it. I wonder where they kept it before.
I never watch unboxings for something I plan to buy.. Ruins the experience. I think I'm safe watching this.
You've jinxed yourself. Watch, now tomorrow you'll win the lottery and buy one of these but won't even be able to enjoy it.
@@mybuddyphil8719 At least I'll get the whole 65 day experience I suppose. I'd def buy one if I won the lottery.. Its got Prof. Moriarty acting like a kid with a new gaming PC for Christmas.
Wait, which experience are you speaking of? Do you mean it ruins the experience of unboxing itself or does it ruin the experience of the product as a whole?
@@romanski5811 Just the unboxing. It's a big consideration with expensive products these days.
Capitalism at its finest :))
It seems like someone is having a lot of fun with his christmas present!
Love it when the field service/installation technician is also the designer.
DevOps! 😄
and the technician has a Ph.D.
14:05 I like that he first has to search for his 30k£ helium-3 bottle between the documents in the drawer with the broken-off handle
Obviously, that's the last place a helium-3 burglar would look for it.
"With this $1.5m microscope we can finally show you that atoms have feelings and miss their neighbours"
But they also like their personal space and don’t like getting too close.
This is the best 60 symbols vlog ever. The passion, the insane engineering in the kit, the setup and anticipation, the learning with hands on exp at 3am (feedback loop to passion) its got it all. Phil is a great dude, anyone who learns off him is should be humble and proud.
Cool af. This channel still lit even after a decade.
No no no, it's not lit. He explains in the video, it doesn't use Optics ;)
@@GeeItSomeLaldy they're cooling it down in fact, so they want it as non-lit as possible
As someone who builds it's bigger brother (transmission electron microscopes) as a job. It makes me incredibly proud to see them in use.
TFS
So, what is the difference between the two types?
@@alimanski7941 An electron microscope uses electrons, a tunneling microscope uses tunnels.
@@alimanski7941 If I remember correctly, the biggest difference is in the type of image produced. Scanning electron microscopes scan the surface of a given sample - the images produced look more like actual photographs ( the greyscale image of a tardigrade comes to mind ). Transmission electron microscopes produce images that look much more like classical microscope images/slides.
Can you help save your country? The poor people are in trouble. Our governments are declaring war on us. We need help from people like you. Please turn your talents to helping your community, because it is crumbling. We don't need more microscopes. Please I beg you, help us.
It's never a Moriarty video without the classic Primus t-shirt
Pork Soda!!!
My PhD thesis, in 1987, was about modeling differential conductance in the STM. It's amazing to see how far these instruments have come.
Interesting. Could you point me out some of the ref you had work on. I wonder if it is possible that the current noise in some situations are due to oscillation from differential conductance.
its amazing how nowadays you need "only" 1.5M$ to image individual atoms.
And the thing is, you can image _lots_ of atoms at the same time for a lot _less._ If that's not quantum evidence of the benefits of mass production and economies of scale, I don't know what is!
The thing is there are even cheaper "more basic" electron microscopes, it's only that this one is a crazy high-precision device.
@@MapedMod - Well, my cousin has been moving gold atoms for years, and he never needed an electron microscope. He just uses a crowbar and a big sack with a dollar sign.
@@yeet1337 you can even build one yourself.
@@RFC-3514 Brilliant.
Hope to more videos soon from the new toy. Thanks for sharing the build process and all the excitement
So, depositing single gold atoms with this STM is the equivalent of “Hello World” in programming? Fantastic build and explanation!
The foil origami crane is an essential feature for an atomic force microscope.
13:52 for a timestamp
Thanks, Daria
foil origami is an essential feature of a certain other scope if you know what I mean, and just as expensive too
The instructions said to install it with a crane, and you should always follow the instructions exactly.
"What colour is an atom?"
Counter clockwise.
Man, I love Sixty Symbols. I'm sad we don't get as much of it as we used to.
Might be connected to the pandemic and many of these professors being on the older side
It's clearly because physics is nearly over and they're running out
/s
@@TAP7a 😂😆😆😆
@@TAP7a That was surprisingly funny. You do know the same was said by the end of the 19th century?
@@standowner6979 Somewhat appropriately, by Lord Kelvin.
I love the scientists and presenters across the numberphile/sixty symbols/Periodic Videos/computerphile channels but Prof. Moriarty is a personal favorite of mine.
Stuff like this makes me miss being an experimental physicist. Fond memories of helium 3 dilution refrigerators, high vacuum, high voltage, and radiation systems back in university and grad school.
That was the best part (but the rest wasn't worth it for me)
What do you do now?
Please tell me you aren't in finance.
I work in tech. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And leak detection
This is some next level unboxing right here! Always good to see prof. Moriarty!
This is the best unboxing video I have ever seen.
This was my first Sixty Symbols video which then led me to the first video onward and now I've made it back to this one. What an amazing journey it's been. Thanks Brady and everyone!
What a Christmas gift! The professor is bubbling with enthusiasm. I imagine a thick book of an IKEA-style assembly manual, complete with cartoon man somewhere in the lab.
What a likable fella Thomas Berghaus seems to be.
A proper engineer imho. Knows insanely much, but seems humble enough to acknowledge that all that knowledge was built through centuries and similarly great minds, with many more to follow, which are just the ones he delivers his tools to. He really appears to have his brain in the right place.
Congraduations Dr. philip! Such a big work ;) This gives us lots of instructions for the building of mk STM here.
Wow! Honestly I'm kinda surprised that an STM-AFM is so "inexpensive". I remember when STMs first started making headlines back when I was in school. I even remember back when the "official line" in the textbooks was that individual atoms were "impossible" to ever see, how times have changed.
Pedantically, the old textbooks are not wrong; atoms *are* actually impossible to see... here they're being "felt", and the result of that feeling process is being displayed visually on the screen.
It is possible to see within the space of an atom, though; there is a gigantic TEM at Hitachi's central R&D lab which has a resolution of 43 picometers. A hydrogen atom has a diameter of 120 picometers.
@@douro20 That's electrons, not light. The point I'm making here is that it's unfair to insinuate that a textbook was wrong for saying that atoms are impossible to see, since claiming the existence of electron microscopes as a counterexample is rather missing the point.
They are impossible to "see" because of the limitation of the wavelengths of visible light at atomic scales
@@TheHuesSciTech Yeah sure give it 50 more years and theyll figure out how to add sub atomic particles to an atom to get certain properties that dont exist in nature and then building whatever the heck you want atom by atom.
Its crazy that i gave a presentation on STM last week and seeing one get unbox next week. Such a powerful equipment.
Thanks sixty symbols..
I implore everyone who works with complex automated equipment to re-watch 25:51. Summary: the best way to use automation is to NOT use automation -- not until you've done it by hand a few times. Don't use the easy button until you don't need the easy button.
Thanks for this comment. I agree entirely, of course! :-)
Philip (Moriarty, speaking in video)
Yep, automation is easy until you try it.
man, prof. Moriarty never fails to impress, and I'm not saying this as a Primus fanboy
and it's a Pork Soda shirt, no less
This was amazing to watch. Professor Moriarty's dedication is admirable.
For the cost of that microscope, you can get almost one whole Tomahawk missile.
Or one and a half million handkerchiefs. Whats your point?
@@The0007rishabh A microscope is of use to humanity, yet so much money is wasted on increasing destruction and misery.
@@smaakjeks ohk
This was amazing and humbling to watch. Some people are simply on another level. Must be cool to work with the guy who invented anything really.
Some feats of science & technology just get to you. That "fancy" piezoelectric crystal setup absolutely blew me away. I love it. I absolutely love the fact that's a thing, and that it's being used like this. Fantastic.
This was so exciting to watch! The Pork Soda t-shirt was an absolute added bonus! ♡
I guess it was 1989ish when they did the IBM in xenon atoms and I was in high school and I remember marveling at what this meant for the future of chemistry, physics, and technology in general. Here we are 33 years later and now with this channel's help, I'm marveling at watching a brand new generation of STM not only get installed but rather than a grainy photo in a newspaper in full HD I'm watching a bleary-eyed but joyful Prof Moriarty deposit atoms of his own and then finding the natural triangle feature with the electron waves. Amazing stuff.
I have waited for long time to watch videos . This video comes as a surprise and worth a wait
Hey! I feel cheated. I thought there would be an affiliate link with promo code! This is one serious piece of kit. Thanks for sharing the unboxing and some of the installation steps you went though.
I just bought one of these off amazon so I'm glad someone made an assembly instructions video already.
New to the channel and catching up. Lovely to see some real hands-on experimental physics with no wormholes, black holes or strings in sight. Great job!
That was fantastic to watch! Thanks for sharing what is probably the most unique and interesting (and longest) unboxing there has ever been.
Wow this is amazing, and the finale totally at the end with the viz of electron waves is just stunning.
Always an awesome feeling when new tools are installed
7:25 This instrument sounds even more promising than the Retro Encabulator!
15:37 Well, the room celling is apparently leaking water from the right top corner on 1.5 M machine :(
One of the best if not the best UA-cam video I've seen in years!
Wow. I salute the scientists who's passion makes these instruments possible.
I've learned a tremendous amount just from watching a few of your videos, thank you for sharing!
I did not expect to enjoy this video as much as I did!
Thanks, for all of us who will never have the occasion for that kind of unboxing. Thanks a lot. Science is our world's magic and i love it.
The fact that as a species we went from throwing sticks and rocks at animals, living in caves to building machines capable to replicate the environment of space in order to look at the building blocks of reality is mind blowing.
Fantastic. Illustrates what a person with the skills, training and imagination can create.
Amazing! Thank you for the effort of filming and sharing this!
yay! that was by far one of your best videos. looking forward!!!!!!
This is such an amazing piece of science technology. I know nothing about these of course but would be neat to learn and use.
Awesome Video, thanks!
That is a great addition to your equipment! Congrats.
Dr. Moriarty's speaking voice is just so resonant and grand. Could listen all day. Also interesting topic so that's cool too 😛👍
Very nice video. Thanks a lot. Great to see these kind of devices and a glimpse of how they work.
Congratulations on finding a Triforce piece!(26:56) and with the STM of course.
Excellent use of the Wilhelm Scream!
This was great! By far one of my favorite channels!
I remember doing this with a Cameca NanoSIMS50 when it was the first installed in UK (at Oxford) and the 6th in the world, was awesome fun learning how to use it by literally putting it together!
This is so exciting for you all, I look forward to hearing more!
This also makes me wonder if the lorry drivers who transport these things give more of a damn when it's £1.5 million of scientific equipment over, say, a couple million in consumer electronics.
I treat all my cargo like scientific equipment
Insurance
You can keep the microscope, I want to play with the box! :D
What a beautiful piece of machinery!
Primus fan as well as a scientist, excellent.
Best video I've seen in a while!
This is an amazing video, thank you so much for producing and publishing it
This makes me all emotional as I used to be in this industry commissioning Spectroscopy and Microscopy instruments and it took me all over the world like the guys here, can we follow your work with the instrument please ? also who makes it especially the LEED ?....cheers.
The instrument is made by a company called Unisoku -- see the blog post linked in the video information. It's a SPECS LEED system.
Philip (Moriarty, speaking in video)
@@thequantumworld6960 Thanks !
This was great to watch!
This is possibly my favorite Sixty Symbols video. I'm taking some physics courses while working, and I would love to do this. I found out the other day that my university does have the hardware. I might need to work on my grades a little, but I could get a research opportunity with this equipment. That's what's motivating me right now. This is pretty amazing. $1.5m is a bargain!
Now this is an unboxing worth watching 👍
Current value. Nice one, Professor Moriarty.
happy to see the ending with that triangle, it's very synergetic
This is the last channel I expected would do an unboxing video!
So glad your instrument works well . 👍
Best unboxing out there :)
Amazing. Congrats on your new instrument.
I used to work around military logistics, from time to time we'd see other departments and federal agencies surplus or dispose of SEM and other hugely expensive devices for fractions of pennies on the dollar.
It boggles the mind what machines smarter men and women have made.
Technologies improve and old equipment gets worn. Heavy deprecation is natural for top of the line equipment.
Always fun seeing new lab toys being installed.
Anything with Phil in is an instant click and like.
Congrats and happy new year ❤️
Although assembled on-site, I can't help but be impressed that this is a manufactured 'unit'. That is, as opposed to the electron microscopes of 80-years ago.
Piezoelectric actuators are also found in quite a few consumer video tape recorders. They are needed to track the video tracks accurately. On consumer systems there typically is no margin between the tracks so you need to track it very closely.
And in HDD's
Excellent video, as always - love you have a £1.1 microscope in a room with a huge water stain running out of one of the ceiling tiles! :D
Longest ad I ever watched. Just ordered mine.
That's a mighty nice xmas present you got there!
I love his vintage primus shirt. I'd love to have a beer with this guy
just a scientist has the privilege to be happy working until 3am.
Congratulation! Very cool!
Happy for your lab! Great for Condensed matter physics. 🥂
I would love to see more videos on this, now that it's been up for a year.
Brilliant episode
Now this is the type of unboxing video I wanna see
Thanks for sharing the passion!
13:53 Love the foil crane. ¦D
Props to the Primus shirt as well.
A Primus shirt, love that. Lol
I'm watching this and thinking to myself, "I would be *grossly* unqualified to operate such a piece of equipment as this." I know the rudiments of physics, but I can't imagine the knowledge necessary to operate something like this. What an amazing machine! Congratulations!
Amping it up to 11. Amazing tech.
These kinds of tools are amazing. The more tools like this we have the better the chance that some genius will see something new and unlock new physics for us!
Love the fact that he is standing in front of a sign that says “Sorry, only 2 people in this room at once” where clearly there are more people - even excluding the cameraman.
I believe that was a deliberate quantum superposition of n people in a 2 people room. That can happen in physics labs.
@@fburton8 yeah but the door of "the box" was open so that doesn't make sense.