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First Look at an Atom's Shadow


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Credit: Kielpinski Group/Griffith University

Nearly 2,500 years ago, the Greek philosopher Democritus theorized the existence of atoms by imagining what happens if you break a material into its smallest possible units. Last year physicist Dave Kielpinski of Australia's Griffith University had a similar thought about shadows.

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