{"id":6080,"date":"2013-05-03T22:01:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T02:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=6080"},"modified":"2013-05-03T22:02:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T02:02:58","slug":"friday-night-my-boy-and-his-atoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2013\/05\/03\/friday-night-my-boy-and-his-atoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday night &#8211; my boy and his atoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 2 days ago scientists at IBM published a really short movie called  <a href=https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=boy+and+his+atom&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;hl=en&#038;client=safari#sclient=tablet-gws&#038;client=safari&#038;hl=en&#038;q=boy+and+his+atom+youtube&#038;oq=boy+and+his+atom+youtube&#038;gs_l=tablet-gws.3...147185.149825.0.150795.8.8.0.0.0.0.815.1644.0j4j1j6-1.6.0...0.0...1c.1.12.tablet-gws-psy.BDeMBOdF33M&#038;pbx=1&#038;bav=on.2,or.&#038;bvm=bv.45960087,d.dmQ&#038;fp=2b15738166042613&#038;biw=1024&#038;bih=644 target=_blank title=>a boy and his atom<\/a>.. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=separator style=text-align: left;><iframe title=YouTube video player class=youtube-player type=text\/html width=500 height=305 src=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oSCX78-8-q0 frameborder=0 allowfullscreen=><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>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 &#39;see&#39; them by magunifying them 100,000,000 times. <\/p>\n<p>   ,  i know this partially because i watched the making of <a href=https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;rct=j&#038;q=boy%20and%20his%20atom%20youtube%20making%20of&#038;source=web&#038;cd=7&#038;ved=0CEQQtwIwBg&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DxA4QWwaweWA&#038;ei=lWiEUfrrAYrM0wHomoHoBA&#038;usg=AFQjCNFHrRMgzGgpvMVMR3gTiq3SSbTsTg&#038;bvm=bv.45960087,d.dmQ target=_blank title=>movie<\/a> .. 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.. <\/p>\n<div class=separator style=clear: both; text-align: none;><a href=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-Photo-May-3-2013-955-PM.jpg target=_blank style=><img src=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-Photo-May-3-2013-955-PM.jpg id=blogsy-1367632963987.0994 class=alignnone alt= width=500 height=500><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=separator style=clear: both; text-align: none;><a href=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-Photo-May-3-2013-955-PM1.jpg target=_blank style=><img src=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-Photo-May-3-2013-955-PM1.jpg id=blogsy-1367632963995.0889 class=alignnone alt= width=500 height=500><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=separator style=clear: both; text-align: none;><a href=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-Photo-May-3-2013-955-PM2.jpg target=_blank style=><img src=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-Photo-May-3-2013-955-PM2.jpg id=blogsy-1367632964046.6133 class=alignnone alt= width=500 height=500><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>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&#8230; 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&#39;t be appropriate,, <\/p>\n<p>You can read about my experience <a href=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/06\/04\/friday-night-atom-sam\/ target=_blank title=>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am very proud of my Colleagues, for making this movie. Not just because of the technical feat involved\u2026 Because of how it humanizes science and nature.  my very tiny hat is off to all of you.<\/p>\n<p>\nMore tomorrow<br \/>\nNight all, night Sam<br \/>\n\u2013 me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=text-align: right; font-size: small; clear: both; id=blogsy_footer><a href=http:\/\/blogsyapp.com target=_blank><img src=http:\/\/blogsyapp.com\/images\/blogsy_footer_icon.png alt=Posted with Blogsy style=vertical-align: middle; margin-right: 5px; width=20 height=20 \/>Posted with Blogsy<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 days ago scientists at IBM published a really short movie called a boy and his atom.. &nbsp; 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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2013\/05\/03\/friday-night-my-boy-and-his-atoms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday night &#8211; my boy and his atoms<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6081,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6080\/revisions\/6081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}