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Lightning strike survivor

Picture of an atom wins science contest........ But we really need to clear things up first as people will mistakenly believe that dot is the size of an atom: it's a long exposure picture, which means there's a lot of photons from the atom hitting the camera sensor which in turn activates the pixel that we're seeing as the purple dot. In reality a single atom is much much smaller. tl;dr: camera sensor pixel =! atom

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Lightning strike survivor

Picture of an atom wins science contest........ But we really need to clear things up first as people will mistakenly believe that dot is the size of an atom: it's a long exposure picture, which means there's a lot of photons from the atom hitting the camera sensor which in turn activates the pixel that we're seeing as the purple dot. In reality a single atom is much much smaller. tl;dr: camera sensor pixel =! atom