2 days ago scientists at IBM published a really short movie called a boy and his atom..

 

Not only was it short.. But it was small all around. It was made entirely of a hundered or so carbon monoxide molecules on a piece of highly polished copper at 4 degrees aove absolute zero, The animators made the movie by manually moving the individual atoms around using the tiny tip of an atomic force microscope. The device not only moves atoms.. But it lets you 'see' them by magunifying them 100,000,000 times.

, i know this partially because i watched the making of movie .. And partially because almost 2 years ago i used that exact same machine to make the worlds smallest samstone. My friend don e. was kind enough to work with me for neary 4 hours as we manually dragged the carbon monoxide molecules aroudn to spell out sams name..

 

it was a slow, medititative process,., requiring lots of patience and love. in the end, i had made the worlds smallest samstone,. perhaps the worlds smallest memorial of any sort… I just lear ned that ibm has submitted thenn boy and his atom movie to guiness and hadmit certified as the worlds smallest movie.. I thought about doing the same thign with my samstone.. But then thought somehow that wouldn't be appropriate,,

You can read about my experience here.

 

I am very proud of my Colleagues, for making this movie. Not just because of the technical feat involved… Because of how it humanizes science and nature. my very tiny hat is off to all of you.

More tomorrow
Night all, night Sam
– me