Re: [asa] Easy to show experiments

> Also, with some searching on the web, you can find pictures and videos
> from various research groups who have trapped single atoms (or small
> numbers of atoms) in magneto-optical traps. You can literally see,
> individual specks of light from laser photons scattering off individual
> atoms in the trap. In other words, thanks to magneto-optical atom traps,
> the old claim that "you can't see a single atom" has been false since the
> early 1990's. Is that cool, or what?!

Often very cool, to get the atom to hold still for the picture.

I have a YEC-motivated middle school science textbook that tries to
question this, apparently an effort to promote the idea that
conventional science is just a theory.

-- 
Dr. David Campbell
425 Scientific Collections
University of Alabama
"I think of my happy condition, surrounded by acres of clams"
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