Moving Atoms: Making The World's Smallest Movie

How did IBM researchers move all those atoms to make the world's smallest movie? This short behind-the-scenes documentary takes you inside the lab. Meet the scientists, see how they made a movie with atoms, and find out more about their research in the field of atomic memory and data storage. See the world's smallest movie at • A Boy And His Atom: Th... . Learn more about atomic memory, data storage and big data at www.ibm.com/mad...

[@malkyweyyt6135]

Starring Atom as atom Atoms as boy atom Atoms as atoms Atoms as atoms Atoms as atoms Atoms as atoms Special thanks to Atoms Sponsored by Atoms Made by IBM credits to IBM and Atoms Another thanks to our sponsors Neutrons Electrons And Protons We cant do this without you Sub atomic particles!

[@biscuitalex829]

I’m sad that no one named Adam was mentioned

[@seantaggart7382]

@@H4_3A and very special thanks to strings and ibm!

[@awddfg]

*_Quarks: Bruh_*

[@alexlandherr]

And a special thanks to the weak force for keeping us together!

[@meekymousey]

Include neutrino too.

[@XFlowSWE]

Now, let's move some planets and make the worlds biggest movie!

[@dphuong98]

While heating them from 0 to something degree!

[@MadOrange644]

it's a shame because no one will live to see it.

[@clay8156]

MadOrange644 LOL!

[@leozeo1900]

XFlowSWE planets? Bah! Planets are TINY! we got to make a movie with galaxies!

[@coolkid9d263]

Leo Zeo Universes!

[@CalebJMartin]

“Nobody, as far as we know, has ever moved 5,000 atoms.” Me: [Stands Up] I win.

[@ltdgames7575]

try to move less than that

[@kwezimashapa6425]

@@ltdgames7575 Challenge excepted

[@earth7440]

God of All Saiyans someone dead after attempting to have less than 5,000 atoms

[@JackyDacky]

Me: **Jumps** *_I win_*

[@georgeruiz9211]

Gets in a plane: I win the most

[@jefffuchs6342]

Anything that keeps kids out of law school is a good thing.

[@ReplayedCo]

Jeff Fuchs why?

[@MrSpaceboyy]

4:22 GOLD

[@diy_rabbithole]

That was hilarious

[@therealb888]

Hilarious lol😂!. But Law kids today control us science kids. A judge who has a no idea of science can pass a judgement to stop all research. The judiciary enjoys way too much control over science, more than scientists ever wanted.

[@batman9937]

Brijesh ayy Indian, try to think deeper. It's not India everywhere else in the world where an official can abuse his powers to any extent to exploit people.

[@generalkitten2100]

-I made a magnet. -Cool, how big? -12

[@raffimolero64]

always specify the unit.

[@XvCiiA]

@@raffimolero64 no

[@matheustran8009]

12 what? Dollars?

[@XvCiiA]

@@matheustran8009 no you spasticated mongaloid. £s

[@chaitanyagoswami2393]

12 tesla ?? Or 12 gauge?? Or 12mirotesla?? Or 12 what?!

[@zero-doi-ta]

*"If an atom was the size of an orange, then the orange will be the size of the earth"* makes sense for me

[@CellRaiden]

TheYoyoGamer i know 😂

[@ZeroBun]

Ik but I'll explain it's basically saying that the size of the earth is the same as an orange if an atom was as big as an orange but the earth will be way bigger than the orange as it is already, it's just replacing and adding where orange (size) = atom earth (size) = orange but if the orange was the size of the earth then the atom would have been a size of the real orange in earth. Lol wrote too much 😂

[@woodilicious722]

Screwedlad Vlogs Basically, the number of oranges it would take to fill up the entire earth is how many atoms it would take to fill up an orange.

[@paoloortiz5662]

I don't think they meant the same orange. I think it goes like this: Let's say an atom is the size of an orange. By that logic, an orange, because of such big atoms, would be the size of the whole planet Earth. Does that makes any sense to you? Helped?

[@youreandyourarentthesamewo6939]

@@screwedladvlogs5951 boy he just helped,no need to be rude...

[@SuperWiiBros08]

Can't wait until we get Disney quality animation done with atoms.

[@douglas1321]

I know this might be wild, but Disney quality animation is made with atoms. In fact, everything is made of atoms my friend. Sorry to burst your bubble

[@nettowaku1252]

Ummmmm.......... Some Disney -anime- animation are made with Computer-generated Imagery that formed with some combination of 0 and 1 which called bit and controlled by the electricity that caused by proton and electron correlation. It does or doesn't? because we only need to move the electron out of atom to another atom in order to create electric charge.

[@MemeMorto]

I think some people cant get joke

[@tgilliesuit3269]

Yeah... but then you'd be ruining the things that literally make up everything...

[@somerandomdudewithachannel325]

R/wooosh

[@nikanj]

4:20 As an engineer who is married to a lawyer and is terrified his daughter will grow up to study law, I approve of this message.

[@yamnaalameri8172]

Why don’t u want ur daughter to go to law

[@andrew6464]

@@yamnaalameri8172 being an engineer is probably way less stressful than being a lawyer and being forced to defend guilty people or being a judge knowing the jury can decide a innocent person is guilty regardless of evidence basically the justice system is pretty dumb and messed up in most countries

[@peanuts2105]

We need engineers and scientists, not lawyers or accountants. These people slow down the human race

[@hughbegg274]

@@andrew6464 agreed. And your child won’t ever grow up to be a Supreme Court judge who lies to congress and takes a country back to the dark ages with reversing women’s rights, environmental protection, and other abominations like separation of church and state. Even without my political rant, science is the most important field of study, period.

[@hughbegg274]

As a construction manager, and educated civil engineer of 59, I am blown away by this little movie and the making there of so much so, that I wish I could change careers today!!!

[@kinghrath]

"If an atom was the size of an orange... " I am still trying to comprehend the sheer smallness of an atom, and I have been no stranger to physics and the independent study thereof. This analogy helps, but I think the limits of the human mind prevent me from fully grasping the magnitude of just how small the building blocks of this world are.

[@caomunistadoggo4129]

And yet, you understand physics, and you have humility to admit how difficult it is to understand the magnitude of this. I get really angry when people that can't differentiate the left from the right hand saying that the Earth is flat only because they can't understand. Sorry if I committed some grammar error, English is not my native language.

[@JanoyCresvaZero]

They’re a bit wrong though… they say atoms are the smallest particles in the universe… we know this to be fundamentally wrong now!

[@someguy2947]

​@@JanoyCresvaZero They are still right about the fact that matter isn't infinitely divisible though!

[@JanoyCresvaZero]

@@someguy2947 Really we don’t know that. Just like we don’t know if the universe is infinitely big, really you could keep going even smaller and smaller and smaller. For all we know, there is no bottom. Just as we don’t know if there’s a barrier to the end of the universe. It could just go forever.

[@Morn__]

@@JanoyCresvaZero you’re wrong, elementary particles like electrons, quark or photons are indivisible

[@Gooselaser]

It's cool but every movie is made out of atoms.

[@kenesys8713]

Thats actually a really fucking confusing way to look at it.

[@derpeth2101]

It's not confusing.

[@kyousey]

It's brilliantly correct.

[@zakariakais5911]

Yeah but movies are usually made out of a *lot* more than one million atom.

[@dr.spectre9697]

Well lets all concentrate on technicalities....

[@Dante033AJ]

atoms are using atoms to see atoms and im using atoms to type this which other atoms are seeing

[@notjacob2589]

Atomception

[@friedchicken1]

hey, who are you calling atoms?

[@nadeemshayyab4383]

You dont need atoms to see atoms you need elections

[@TVD_KING]

100th like. Wow an atom made an atomic comment even.

[@shreyanss]

@@nadeemshayyab4383 someone who knows , finally

[@bluelavender01]

That was 8 years ago... Imagine the power they had now.

[@devvyas6751]

Daaamn

[@YuLi-gx2ep]

He said we would be able to have all movie ever produced in our phone, that’s not true, so they either didn’t make a huge progress or it’s too expensive to put in a phone. Anyway, we have good internet now 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@henmich]

Now the animation has the boy running.

[@EdgePR0]

9...

[@jamesmit100]

Nothing big actually. By the way, how wasteful of young minds if he successfully attracted 1000 kids to join this research. Huffff...

[@Davis38]

*_"A boy named Adam that falls in love with an Atom"_*

[@ACE-jk4cc]

Real steal 👌😂😂

[@masterdelrap]

You can see see atoms,in reality you are not seeing atoms, you are looking at electric field made from the electrons around the atom. These is how they create a electric field from contact with a very fine tip on an electron device.

[@trizisstupid2855]

let's go first reply on a 7 year old comment

[@prismglider5922]

That would be why it seems like there's a wave propagating out of each atom, yes?

[@cottonsheep2367]

@@trizisstupid2855 Let's go reply to a 4 day old comment, in shock at how old this video already is

[@Bramswarr]

in reality i am not seeing anything. I am creating a visual representation of the patterns of proteins in my retinal cells reacting to being hit by photons at different wavelengths.

[@trizisstupid2855]

@@cottonsheep2367 bark

[@Pyriphlegeton]

1:37 "Nobody, as far as we know, has ever moved 5000 Atoms." Well - I don't want to brag, but I do that quite regularly. Feel free to cantact me, IBM.

[@giseliogozelio]

you move more than 5000, i dare u to move only 5000

[@zhee1236]

@@giseliogozelio *WAVES ARM*

[@brandonchan5387]

@@zhee1236 So your arm is made of 5000 atoms?

[@zhee1236]

@@brandonchan5387 from Elbow to Hand

[@meatloafer2762]

Brandon Chan your hand is made out of millions of atoms

[@michaelthompson6452]

What the world doesn't need is more lawyers. We need more scientist.

[@AJ-dx6bn]

Then the evil will rise

[@kiyoshi5430]

@@AJ-dx6bn at least we can experiment with them.

[@takashi06228]

@@kiyoshi5430 We can't even know if they did the crime without a lawyer. Lawyers are as important as scientists.

[@halamadruuid2380]

@@takashi06228 No, no no no. Just no.

[@takashi06228]

@@halamadruuid2380 may I have a reason.?

[@PAGRlO]

"Story is about a boy named Adam falling in love with atom" me: Atosexuality?

[@ociked]

It's complicated :)

[@PAGRlO]

now put here WHAT? meme

[@ociked]

@@PAGRlO idk I am too lazy to create a meme

[@mobileterrarian8860]

Well, everyone is Atosexual if you think about it.

[@PAGRlO]

@@mobileterrarian8860 lol

[@shinobi1933]

4:20 "if i can get kids to study science rather than law school I'd be happy". Mans a revolutionary fr

[@manojnaikade]

some of you say its molecules of carbon monoxide and some say its an atom. What is it really? Of course its a huge achievement. But there is a big difference in a molecule and an atom.

[@IBM]

manoj naikade it's certainly an atom. You can view the original video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYSmiWpuYp1gp5I

[@manojnaikade]

vernonclassic at 1:25 he says "molecules", 1:46 "CO molecules", 3:02 & 3:36 "atoms"

[@joe35lok]

manoj naikade The description of the video "A Boy And His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie" says...carbon monoxide molecules (two atoms stacked on top of each other).

[@Stormsson]

joe35lok and yet ibm post replies that those are single atoms =)

[@johnathonkendall3341]

+Adam Reed look at the description in the original video.

[@AZoje]

This is amazing, I can't believe you could actually hear the atoms, and the sound they make fits perfectly to the movie! Hooray for science!

[@hiddenguy67]

wow

[@conservativeman32]

@@hiddenguy67 howdy

[@hiddenguy67]

@@conservativeman32 hi

[@rezzer7918]

You can't lol gullible much?

[@Plutomaniaa]

you know they dubbed the movie right

[@Blarnix]

Just imagine the amount of data we could put in a phone using atoms as bits. Insane.

[@alphhan]

As of today, 78 jurists watched this video.

[@coloramber2517]

Now we are at 212 law students and workers

[@panconqueos]

They said atoms but those are molecules, dislike

[@Beos_Valrah]

@@panconqueos It's literally just 2 atoms per molecule, but I get your point...

[@adeeta5701]

476

[@mypowerlevelisover9000]

Now it's 482

[@Gustavo-ye1ko]

"The hability to do something just because you find it interesting is a really important think", that words arrived at the heart.

[@crazguykwan8955]

Any scientific documentary: exists Marimba: it's my time to shine

[@WaveArsenal]

so true

[@L3RNA3AN]

It's incredible about how far we've progressed with technology.

[@rezzer7918]

I knowwww! 🙄

[@vidurmakkar34]

The moment you hear the guy from Action Lab at 3:43, you ain't alone brother!! 🙃

[@PavanKumar-ky1oj]

I also thought the same

[@z_axis450]

1:59 The diameter of an orange is typically around 10 centimeters, while the diameter of an atom is on the order of 0.1 nanometers (depending on the specific element and its electronic configuration). To scale up an atom to the size of an orange, we would need to increase its size by a factor of approximately 10^10, or 10 billion. So, if we assume that an atom that has been scaled up to the size of an orange has a diameter of 10 centimeters (or 0.1 meters), we can calculate the volume of the resulting object using the formula for the volume of a sphere: V = (4/3) x pi x (r^3) where V is the volume, pi is the mathematical constant pi (approximately 3.14159), and r is the radius of the sphere. Using this formula, we can calculate the volume of our scaled-up "atom": V = (4/3) x pi x (0.05 meters)^3 V = 5.24 x 10^-5 cubic meters Next, we need to compare this volume to the volume of the Earth, which is approximately 1.083 x 10^12 cubic kilometers (or 1.083 x 10^27 cubic meters). To do this, we can divide the volume of our scaled-up "atom" by the volume of the Earth: 1.083 x 10^27 m^3 / 5.24 x 10^-5 m^3 = 2.07 x 10^31 This calculation suggests that if an atom were the size of an orange, then the resulting object would have a volume roughly 2 x 10^31 times larger than the Earth, which is obviously not the case. Therefore, the statement "if an atom was the size of an orange, then the orange would be the size of the whole planet earth" is not mathematically accurate.

[@BlockheadJiujitsu]

I like this documentary's message. Screw lawyers, everyone should do science!

[@arid1746]

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[@lxathu]

Well... yes... but IBM gets a fair part of its profit from patents. So lawyers are safe.

[@asianmohamed2065]

Yea but without people understanding philosophy and social sciences, the world wouldn't be as it is today.

[@purpleice2343]

"Social sciences". Lol what, can you name more than the Social science itself?

[@lxathu]

Shadow Lurker Is this a serious question? "The social sciences include, but are not limited to, economics, political science, human geography, demography, management, psychology, sociology, anthropology, archaeology, jurisprudence, history, and linguistics. " Yes, from wikipedia, but most of them should be listed from the top of the head by someone who LOLs when the question is on the table. I recommend asking before shooting.

[@DrKAZ_Universe]

4:26 I'd be super happy.

[@eddy8655]

Hard to believe that a machine can make such small movements with that accuracy.

[@AndriyVasylenko]

Wait... I believed that atoms and molecules were not the same.

[@raffimolero64]

that's why the video title is misleadingg

[@mixxipie]

@Andriy Vasylenko They aren’t really but, a molecule is created by more than 1 atom

[@togni9064]

lol what are you doing here what a surprise

[@dome6356]

T

[@dome6356]

Y

[@mandarin1257]

3:31 that's the cold, hard truth

[@NC_Isro_64]

*Literally*

[@D-Man_Jam]

0:16 the dude looks like he's being held at gunpoint, and they're saying: _"Do the introduction."_

[@Thestripper1]

They use IBM Model-M keyboards..

[@DiegoGenovez]

+jonnebanan one of the best keyboards ever made imo

[@Thestripper1]

+Diego Genovez Word

[@andymorin9163]

Diego Genovez Model F is superior imho

[@lxathu]

Just what I thought was when I saw it: moving atoms one by one may be cool, but that keyboard on the table has been and will ever be the peak of science and technology.

[@mandarin1257]

4:15 true lol the lady in the green jumper on the left

[@antonckoenig]

0:34 He said making an atom movie "*sounds like a simple concept*"

[@Gadget-Walkmen]

That's not what he meant. This is still an amazing artistic piece of animation brimming with life and creativity despite it's limited nature. It's a fantastic video!

[@manamritsingh969]

Their pure fascination with science Made me shed a few tears. I really look up to people like you. I'll keep working hard and become as good as you guys

[@NormChatelier]

Great explanation of the process... making a 60-second movie started 40 years ago! Of course it's not about the movie but rather the implications for data storage and computing. This tech is going to cause a huge leap.

[@obedmonsalve]

I'm as dumb as a bag of potatoes, and don't really understand all of this... But if you guys did a stop motion movie with something so small that you can't see it with own eyes or touch it with your own hands, then you guys are the biggest filmmakers i've ever seen.

[@RGC_YT]

I can't believe this video was made when i was a year old, it has such good video, and audio quality.

[@RyanHDR]

Oh hell yes, you folks still use Model M's in your lab!

[@JBFLY89]

So good!!!

[@EpicManaphyDude]

3:55 makes microscope noises to assert dominance

[@wiktordykas5513]

I have just realized that this video has 1.6 million views and its not even public

[@AakashKalaria]

I am an Animator and I love it! Congratulations to all the people who made this! :D

[@benseilhan6517]

They said the particles were molecules of Carbon Dioxide, but then multiple times said they were individual atoms.. Confused..

[@AJAYKUMARSAGAR]

*monoxide. that means there are just 2 atoms involved

[@rosaleesmall7865]

ថងថងថថងថងថថថថថថងថដថថិបិងហងហងយុ. ដលផោផផផផោផផផផផផផផោផផោផឥឥផផផផោផផលោលោលលដោផផផផោលោផផផផផផផោលោ ម ហ្តយុឲកកលផោក

[@MW-cx3sb]

Co So 1 carbon and 1 oxygen atom stuck together

[@jengriffin2921]

In the words of a certain German educational youtuber: “scientists are bad at naming things”

[@cholsreammos]

Its so weird bc about 3 weeks ago in my chemistry class i had a very similar concept of making a machine that can turn drawings into "molecules" and i tried finding something that did that but thought there wasnt one. Its glad to see that the people who made it/have it are just as cooky as i am

[@man_on_wheelz]

I came here looking for a clear explanation of how that machine works (or can work) after seeing one at my little brothers college during the orientation walk-through. The professor there explained to me how it works and what it's used for so I already understand it and how it works, and this video just showed me a cool demonstration of how this machine is actively operated. Pretty cool, thanks IBM!

[@IBM]

Glad you enjoyed the video! You can learn more about A Boy and His Atom in our playlist bit.ly/29YH5D7

[@anthonyvincent4134]

So molecules not atoms? Still pretty damn small...

[@alexa.davronov1537]

CO2 has only 3 atoms so you can imagine.

[@georgeruiz9211]

Actually its CO so 2 atoms

[@DarkValorWolf]

@@georgeruiz9211 and you can't see 1 of them so when you think about it's really just 2

[@alanedison1]

@@felix8091 he said carbon monoxide

[@achilleaustin4477]

@@felix8091 he literally said that it has 2 atoms, which is correct. You are also correct however I don’t understand what point you’re pushing. These molecules will appear the same width as a single atom from the direction they are being “filmed” from also.

[@leftyfourguns]

This is so crazy. I remember reading about stuff like this as a kid in books like Michael Crichton's "Timeline" and it all seemed ridiculous. But here they are doing it

[@andreasheinrich1425]

Thanks for all those awesome discussions. It is amazing to see how much you care, that makes it all worth it for me! And yes - the pencil does contain a heck of a lot of atoms … which helps to illustrate how tiny Adam really is.

[@riyahere3838]

That's Great

[@i-like-music]

NEXT: Make a movie with quarks.

[@celestepalm6949]

The background music they chose for this segment is so perfect.

[@blackpanther6655]

Lmfao at 0:01 I tought I was watching a Granny lets play cuzvof that wind sound

[@NominoDev]

Me too XDDD

[@CR7amaxsuii]

Soooooo true

[@romeucapelasa]

1:35 He is a liar i have moved more atoms watching this vídeo

[@user-yy6eb7lj2d]

haha, well done)

[@zyaicob]

You've moved more than 5000 obviously but have you moved 5000 atoms?

[@nebul1269]

Your a liar cause you didn't move 5000 atoms you've moved 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000 atoms stupid, read before you comment

[@peterlustig3175]

tbh i don't think someone ever moved that many atoms... you know, that number is quite large...

[@gorgeousfreeman4836]

Lmao go to school

[@rajruban637]

I' m impressed very much by their work. i am seeing this after 10 years

[@Jaguarmaserati]

Wow, this is both interesting and informative. The concept of doing such a thing is absolutely mind boggling. Kudos to you guys for doing this. :)

[@AssetManager20]

Thank you IBM for these snippets of the behind the scenes work you do. They are fantastically produced and it is super interesting learning about the world around.

[@rezzer7918]

🙄

[@Asalizardicanconfirm]

​@@rezzer7918 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@malibu188]

I was fortunate enough to attend a 1985 talk by Dr Gerd Binning at an IBM office in Western Australia . This illuminating technology still shines brightly I see.

[@morgue502]

What if the atom was the size of earth? Than it would be the size of the whole planet ear- oh wait.

[@jasonnilsen4990]

than a copy of our earth would be the size of the universe.

[@Ana11411]

@@jasonnilsen4990 and a copy of universe would be the size of a.......a....

[@Sivos909]

"Moving an atom might sound like an easy thing to do..." No! No it does not, lol.

[@hayoun3]

Every movie filmed by light. This movie was just filmed by force. It is just like watching movie while closing your eyes and feeling by touching all of the surface. Briliant.

[@greatmeatball2978]

Now I need a video that would really explain what is ACTUALLY going on here.

[@gulpbiys5705]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZOmgpeXoaxlea8

[@xnotic24]

This is so amazing. I am super stocked to see what happens in the next 20 years

[@MossyMozart]

@xnotic24 - Stoked, even!

[@ImHiroNakamura]

To avoid confusion, I think it is much better to word it this way: “If the atom was magnified to the size of an orange, that would be the equivalent of magnifying the orange to the size of the earth.”

[@youareright6913]

0:21 This guy is hardly even blinking in whole video, I think he's belong to the same species as mark zucclizard.

[@RemyNote]

CO is a molecule, C is an atom, O is an atom... Why is this so confusing?

[@RemyNote]

... That's not the point. The point is that the movie is called "Moving Atoms", while it should be called "Moving Molecules"

[@__-nt2wh]

+Remy Nimja They are still moving atoms, I dont get your point..

[@RemyNote]

Moving atoms implies that you're moving them individually. And they're not, they're moving Molecules.

[@RemyNote]

(as a sidenote; I'm also "Moving atoms" every time I move...)

[@bartvos2342]

+Remy Nimja My Guess is that for constructing the boy they used CO molecules to speed up the process. If they were using molecules for for example the 'ball' it wouldn't show up as a single dot. Only thing that confuses me is that I thought they used STM technology for this movie, but that would be impossible using non-conducting atoms such as C atoms and O atoms.

[@Arianm09]

Law school: "And I took that personally".

[@l40t30]

can't wait for the sequel where they use planets

[@IshCaracal]

"It sounds like a simple concept" really mate? Who would've thought it's a simple concept?

[@Gadget-Walkmen]

That's not what he meant. This is still an amazing artistic piece of animation brimming with life and creativity despite it's limited nature. It's a fantastic video!

[@matteoruz]

The fact that this vid is unlisted makes me special.

[@theuser1240]

*2:28** cool keyboard. Can I buy it on Amazon?*

[@rhouser1280]

This is absolutely incredible, & it’s been 9 years since this movie was made. Come on IPhone, I’m ready to upgrade to infinite storage!!!

[@SynthWaveSC]

This video is 8 years old and the quality is so good

[@masterdelrap]

why we can only see a few atoms?? why you cant see thousands? or millions around

[@youngstay2989]

rap RD wellinton quix, el campeon. Aqui disfrutando un manguito en Higüey

[@raffaeledivora9517]

Look up SEM (scanning electron microscope)

[@kymedd]

"human eye can't see a single atom" Me who sees 100000 millions atom

[@babyyyTV]

Having an outro made from moving atoms into IBM Is the biggest flex I've seen

[@mav6771]

Nice Model M :)

[@andymorin9163]

mav6771 Blue logo with trackball :)

[@roberttalada5196]

Trackpoint.

[@rushadpatel2608]

Hey IBM when you say you are building atoms on a surface. What is the surface made out of? Just trying to get my head around, when you put an Atom on 'Something', then what is the 'Something'?

[@ibmresearch]

Rushad Patel Hi, a surface is a simpler way to say "substrate". For example when IBM scientist Don Eigler used 35 individual xenon atoms to spell IBM he used a substrate of chilled crystal of nickel. The choice of material for the substrate is a critical part of the experiment. Graphene is another material which IBM scientists are using as a substrate.

[@amaze2n]

IBM Research Could you also please clarify why moving the atoms makes a noise with each position? I assume it is some function (?) of the instrument rather than the atom itself, seeing as how the atoms are near absolute zero and a movement of such tiny magnitude would not be audible. But these are just my assumptions! I'm really curious

[@tyroneking7515]

amaze2n It's the sound of the universe being torn apart, little by little

[@jdm89s13]

+Rushad Patel This was the first question I had when I saw the image of the boy! How can atoms sit on a "surface" that is made up of anything else but other atoms? How can we tell the foreground atoms from the background atoms?

[@jdm89s13]

+IBM Research How is it that we are unable to see the individual atoms which compose the substrate, but we are able to see the individual xenon atoms?

[@Here_is_Waldo]

I so wish I was smart enough to comprehend all this stuff and be in these industries. it's just incredible what is being discovered and worked on in the world.

[@bryanribey]

Wait I guess I've been caught out of the loop because I didn't know that microscopes could magnify enough to see atoms or even compounds.

[@KALINAxK]

Ileana Rau is romanian! So awesome :D

[@arvindcharan8039]

A boy and his Atom STARRING: Atom Atom And a lot of atoms

[@QuartzOfficial]

the most popular unlisted video ever

[@Gplaya]

i love IBM for their great scientific achievements, but i have a question, what the background made of? i know quarks, gluons, electrons and neutrinos are smaller than atoms but i guess u can't build surface using those, what could possibly make that background look so clear and soft?

[@felipesalazar2139]

The surface is soon "below" of the atoms captured by the microscope, but still they can see them back, forming a kind of outline. The microscope is made to capture one layer at a time

[@Gplaya]

that makes sense, like depth camera. thanx man!

[@tahakaleem1783]

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[@eitanoidos6304]

atom foil

[@Hiboosss]

the guy that’s makes the small movies out of melting beads has gotta step up his game

[@jeremiahmedel4385]

I learned lot more about chemistry from reading comments than my highschool years

[@lululipes4382]

1:59 I don't get it, so an atom is the size of the whole Earth? 🤔

[@lululipes4382]

Oh, he meant an actual orange

[@ACE-jk4cc]

Imagine an orange has n no. Of atoms Now you have to take n no. Of oranges and stack them to make an orange the final result will be an orange which will be as big as earth

[@Mrs._Fenc]

me petting my cat, moving more than 5,000 atoms at once: Look at what these people do to mimic a fraction of my power!

[@nicbleu]

lol at law school.... he is right science is the future of us all... law is the past and will never be the future

[@AJ-dx6bn]

So the future in your opinion is doesn't have law? So human just can live without law? Wow i can imagine how barbaric the future will be if there's no law

[@AJ-dx6bn]

Even nature have the law

[@mackenzierynebagtong8549]

then the world go nuts without laws.

[@AvishekKhan]

Wait, are those atoms or molecules? At 1:44 she clearly says CO molecules. Confused. 🤔

[@AW33406]

Avishek Khan A molecule is a group of atoms

[@AvishekKhan]

Sir Doge yes, and a pixel on a screen is a group of molecules and atoms are a group of quarks and electrons. So we've been watching movies made of subatomic particles all along. Got it.

[@imbopam198]

this is awesome because during the movie you can see the surface atoms moulding around the main ones

[@uesdtosignin1038]

3:37 Why does atom moving is so loud ? Is a atom very heavy ?

[@WriteThatReset]

Absolutely incredible and inspiring!

[@Arlantacious]

but how come the surface behind the atoms in the movie looks flat isn't it supposed to be more atoms?

[@itsmethatguy4860]

I guess it is not zoomed on enough on the background, or maybe it is just transparent.

[@benson1608]

This is so cool and interesting! Also that you ca hear that atoms make sounds, wow!

[@Maxim499]

Big respect guys! Exactly! We have to do what we love!

[@shirleyholmes358]

Damn right, biker kitty. You do you!!

[@shrimpjar2]

"if an atom is the size of an orange, then the orange would be the size of earth" Wow atoms are gigantic

[@RG18YT]

woah 1.7 million views for an unlisted video???

[@witlesscord903]

well every one is sent here by the video its talking about

[@RG18YT]

@@witlesscord903 yeah I know but its still a crazy amount

[@mothmads]

the original video had 14 million views

[@witlesscord903]

@@mothmads what? this is the original

[@param2014]

I wish I had seen this video before joining law school!😩😢

[@hgplaying5629]

4:20 "If I can do this and I can get a thousand kids to join science rather than going to lawschool, I'd be super happy" xD

[@Badhacktime]

1:12 [SCP-173 SOUNDS]