The World's Most Powerful Microscope - KQED QUEST

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  • Опубліковано 30 бер 2009
  • 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
    @harfast10 5 років тому +365

    The University of Berkley now uses it to spot microaggressions.

  • @TheRemake1
    @TheRemake1 5 років тому +103

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

    • @thelordofthehobbies856
      @thelordofthehobbies856 5 років тому +68

      pewdiepie vs tseries

    • @dougg1075
      @dougg1075 5 років тому +5

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

    • @andromeda4995
      @andromeda4995 4 роки тому +20

      Flat earthers

    • @tomtennent677
      @tomtennent677 4 роки тому +5

      Hitachi now have a 1.2 million volt EM

    • @hexagonist23
      @hexagonist23 3 роки тому +4

      @FridayGood more like biden supporters

  • @NinjaOnANinja
    @NinjaOnANinja 9 років тому +83

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

    • @bignigga60
      @bignigga60 6 років тому +5

      The most perfect pop I've ever heard.

    • @relikvija2
      @relikvija2 5 років тому +2

      NinjaOnANinja good eaf

    • @pjn2001
      @pjn2001 5 років тому

      confused...

    • @ahbz1995
      @ahbz1995 5 років тому

      !

    • @dmitribrenzo186
      @dmitribrenzo186 4 роки тому +2

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

  • @abor3dbengawal646
    @abor3dbengawal646 4 роки тому +16

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

  • @justinlc1
    @justinlc1 15 років тому +4

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

  • @XBGamerX20
    @XBGamerX20 2 роки тому +8

    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

  • @whoeverwhoever400
    @whoeverwhoever400 9 років тому +36

    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
      @AbleToCum1 9 років тому +7

      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
      @knightlykin1499 9 років тому

      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
      @AbleToCum1 9 років тому

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

    • @knightlykin1499
      @knightlykin1499 9 років тому +1

      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
      @AbleToCum1 9 років тому +4

      ***** u blew my mind..

  • @pgo301
    @pgo301 11 років тому +3

    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
      @doggopower6326 7 років тому

      Patrick O'Connor 3 years ago but yes I agree

  • @garwex2961
    @garwex2961 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @sgtgs42
    @sgtgs42 11 років тому +6

    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!

  • @ZorgKirill
    @ZorgKirill 4 роки тому +13

    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

  • @terminusest9179
    @terminusest9179 4 роки тому +3

    Particle Style: Atomic Dismantling Jutsu.

  • @radishpineapple74
    @radishpineapple74 15 років тому

    Beautiful.

  • @princeofexcess
    @princeofexcess 15 років тому +2

    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

  • @dougg1075
    @dougg1075 5 років тому +2

    Video on next version of this microscope?

  • @jasonmaes6021
    @jasonmaes6021 5 років тому

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

  • @christianlorre
    @christianlorre 8 років тому

    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.

  • @wassup986
    @wassup986 13 років тому +1

    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.

  • @mlk808
    @mlk808 7 років тому +3

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

  • @RenanMeloC
    @RenanMeloC 11 років тому

    You are admirable, sir.

  • @jaythehulkmoeller6648
    @jaythehulkmoeller6648 5 років тому

    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!!!

  • @pstrzel
    @pstrzel 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @juliscipi
    @juliscipi 11 років тому

    How very interesting and exciting great video

  • @EphemeralProductions
    @EphemeralProductions 4 роки тому +1

    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. :)

  • @Vicvines
    @Vicvines 11 років тому

    thanks

  • @dredrotten
    @dredrotten 5 років тому

    Wow! Why havent I seen this before?

  • @jkerman5113
    @jkerman5113 6 років тому +8

    high definition, woooow.......

    • @akt7433
      @akt7433 5 років тому

      Yeah at last!!

    • @lukiepoole6701
      @lukiepoole6701 4 роки тому

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

  • @ivanlagrossemoule
    @ivanlagrossemoule 12 років тому

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

    • @donichiro
      @donichiro 2 роки тому

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

  • @cheers2life578
    @cheers2life578 5 років тому

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

  • @danthadon87
    @danthadon87 10 років тому +92

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

    • @ChoperJoJo
      @ChoperJoJo 9 років тому +7

      will be an app for phones (?

    • @elitebelt
      @elitebelt 9 років тому +10

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

    • @Pierreandandre
      @Pierreandandre 9 років тому

      elitebelt Wiseass.

    • @Dravis1995
      @Dravis1995 8 років тому +6

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

    • @-Teus-
      @-Teus- 8 років тому +9

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

  • @andreisabe
    @andreisabe 6 років тому +3

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

  • @derpestarzt
    @derpestarzt 4 роки тому

    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?

  • @Tibor19921
    @Tibor19921 11 років тому

    Fantastic

  • @BEmuslimBE
    @BEmuslimBE 12 років тому

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

  • @JustinHallPlus
    @JustinHallPlus 11 років тому

    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.

  • @louiscypher7090
    @louiscypher7090 5 років тому

    Unreal.

  • @aluisious
    @aluisious 11 років тому

    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.

  • @listerdave1240
    @listerdave1240 4 роки тому +2

    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'.

  • @jonescomplete
    @jonescomplete 11 років тому +2

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

  • @aluisious
    @aluisious 11 років тому +2

    Just for grins, and because this is UA-cam, 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
      @saurav1916 2 роки тому

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

  • @cleetorres1351
    @cleetorres1351 Рік тому +1

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

  • @andygouberman4903
    @andygouberman4903 3 роки тому

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

  • @14Mentalist
    @14Mentalist 4 роки тому +1

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

  • @deeppurple883
    @deeppurple883 3 роки тому

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

  • @debjitmukherjee8494
    @debjitmukherjee8494 11 років тому

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

  • @johgranger1304
    @johgranger1304 3 роки тому

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

  • @MrHavetofly
    @MrHavetofly 11 років тому

    have they already tried using harmonics to stabilize these metals?

  • @conephompany
    @conephompany 2 роки тому

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

  • @yaidelrodriguezzaldivar6724
    @yaidelrodriguezzaldivar6724 6 років тому

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

  • @PCpete101
    @PCpete101 14 років тому

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

  • @gokusupersaiya8067
    @gokusupersaiya8067 4 роки тому

    may i selfie use this micsroscope?

  • @magnuswootton7368
    @magnuswootton7368 5 років тому

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

  • @heynowbrian3326
    @heynowbrian3326 5 років тому

    Damn atoms

  • @digitalis303
    @digitalis303 11 років тому +1

    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.

  • @IvCastilla
    @IvCastilla 10 років тому +8

    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
      @digitalbroadcaster 8 років тому +5

      +IvCastilla Your source for that info?

    •  5 років тому

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

    • @Mavrik9000
      @Mavrik9000 5 років тому

      The "nemoscope" was a hoax.

  • @villahermosavlogs
    @villahermosavlogs 5 років тому

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

  • @XstarkadX
    @XstarkadX 11 років тому

    Interesting

  • @bradley5819
    @bradley5819 5 років тому

    Every home should have one

  • @justinonps497
    @justinonps497 5 років тому +2

    This is what we need to see my weenie

  • @mistycloud4455
    @mistycloud4455 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @Vicvines
    @Vicvines 11 років тому

    good

  • @s4ss1n
    @s4ss1n 5 років тому

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

  • @theeraphatsunthornwit6266
    @theeraphatsunthornwit6266 5 років тому

    And this is 10 years ago 😲

  • @ktx49
    @ktx49 12 років тому

    shanuo-
    the reason you dont see gaseous atoms is because electron microscopes operate in a vacuum so all the air is pumped out.
    no its physically impossible to improve the light microscope past a certain point because it uses WAVES of light and the wavelength of light is the actual limiting factor...
    no clue on ur 3rd question

  • @falconoilcompany
    @falconoilcompany 8 років тому +4

    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
      @madeonearth3429 5 років тому

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

  • @jamespurks1694
    @jamespurks1694 6 років тому

    But how does this compare to the atomic force microscope?

  • @wanbj2
    @wanbj2 4 роки тому +1

    Thank you almighty algorithm

  • @kingofgoldnessr9364
    @kingofgoldnessr9364 9 років тому +1

    Jesus christ, atoms!

  • @axel714
    @axel714 12 років тому +1

    rife universal microscope is real deal

  • @scottpitner4298
    @scottpitner4298 2 роки тому +1

    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.

  • @andreisabe
    @andreisabe 6 років тому

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

  • @DavidWoroner
    @DavidWoroner 11 років тому +3

    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... ;-)

  • @ChadSmith305
    @ChadSmith305 4 роки тому

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

  • @rlicon1970
    @rlicon1970 5 років тому

    The Golem collections? Lol

  • @dougg1075
    @dougg1075 5 років тому

    Old microscope = awesome!

  • @Microtherion
    @Microtherion 10 років тому

    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
      @noneofyourbeeswax01 5 років тому

      "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
    @edwardmurrow84 12 років тому

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

  • @TadaGanIarracht
    @TadaGanIarracht 11 років тому

    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. :)

  • @ewaldlessing
    @ewaldlessing 6 років тому

    cool

  • @NiGGaZtcz
    @NiGGaZtcz 5 років тому +7

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

    • @tomtennent677
      @tomtennent677 4 роки тому

      Check out Hitachi highest resolution electron microscope.

    • @lukiepoole6701
      @lukiepoole6701 4 роки тому

      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
      @thebeast5215 3 роки тому

      @@lukiepoole6701 troll

    • @lukiepoole6701
      @lukiepoole6701 3 роки тому

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

  • @aluisious
    @aluisious 11 років тому

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

  • @nickcalingo3309
    @nickcalingo3309 4 роки тому

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

  • @dimaisatree
    @dimaisatree 4 роки тому

    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..

  • @NoBody-kw5tq
    @NoBody-kw5tq 6 років тому

    3:40 is that a Graphene??

  • @GumbaverianX
    @GumbaverianX 4 роки тому

    *Laughs in S20 Ultra*

  • @Vicvines
    @Vicvines 11 років тому

    that's a technical argument and not a flame argument

  • @clover1796
    @clover1796 5 років тому

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

  • @ManiacMcgeee
    @ManiacMcgeee 15 років тому

    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
      @notmetoofor150 6 років тому

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

  • @LazsalzariRomnzevroskki
    @LazsalzariRomnzevroskki 11 років тому

    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 .... ?

  • @sajjaddbaloch
    @sajjaddbaloch 4 роки тому

    👍❤

  • @thextravagant1459
    @thextravagant1459 4 роки тому +1

    This video was made when I turned 1 day old

    • @thebeast5215
      @thebeast5215 3 роки тому

      @Morten CHUNG April fools lmao

    • @thebeast5215
      @thebeast5215 3 роки тому

      @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.

  • @daltonairsofter
    @daltonairsofter 12 років тому

    @BEmuslimBE No this is just how carbon atoms combine

  • @Garagem28customs
    @Garagem28customs 4 роки тому

    27 million microscope and 20 dollar monitor..

  • @BEmuslimBE
    @BEmuslimBE 13 років тому

    is the shape of atoms Hexagonal????
    wow

  • @SHOKNI
    @SHOKNI 5 років тому +1

    4:43
    What?
    Everybody agrees?
    Why? How?

  • @jaythehulkmoeller6648
    @jaythehulkmoeller6648 5 років тому

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

  • @innertubez
    @innertubez 5 років тому

    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."

  • @yakir11114
    @yakir11114 11 років тому

    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?

  • @Abrahamhamham
    @Abrahamhamham 9 років тому +4

    If we're going to talk about size, that microscope is what computers were 40-50 years ago. 40-50 years from now it's going to be so compact you could fit it in a small bag. We're a perpetually primitive species because evolution never stops.

    • @commenter7893
      @commenter7893 8 років тому

      +MrSatanochio i really wonder what is technology going to be like in 40 years. how are tvs, computers, microscopes, telescopes, cars, smartphones, watches, planes going to be.

    • @aluisious
      @aluisious 7 років тому +4

      No it isn't. You have no concept of how the microscope works. Take a 300 thousand volt power supply and put it in your small bag and let us know how that works after it arcs and sets you on fire.

    • @commenter7893
      @commenter7893 7 років тому

      aluisious computers used to be the size of whole rooms and had the power of a smartphone or less .

    • @aluisious
      @aluisious 7 років тому +3

      commenter78 Irrelevant. You are completely ignorant about how electron microscopes work so your analogy is worthless.

    • @commenter7893
      @commenter7893 7 років тому

      aluisious how do you know technology wont evolve in such a way for the microscope too?

  • @raznoth
    @raznoth 4 роки тому +1

    Any image of virus?