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😂😂😂

When you give them a bruise you change the shape of the object by measuring it. Quantum physics is cool.

Good thing they didn't try to develop a Transmission version of it. I shot holes in my samples with electrons in TEM, imagine the holes tennis balls could create...

The AFM version is a horror film.

It might work. Lucy Van Pelt (from Peanuts) did it with American Footballs covered in mustard. youtu.be/ivpz6hR7uGk

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Alternative title text: ”Some madman wanted to use this for inspecting ICs, unfortunately they weren’t stopped before a large batch of them were smashed into a fine mess.”

[sounds of truck backing up to loading dock] "Here's that shipment of medicine balls you ordered!"

Scanning resolution and obliteration of subject.

🤷‍♂️ It's the same principle, I guess 😆

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Just the act of observing changes the nature of the object being observed behaves.

My height in balls is 47.3 balls.

If you loaded with rutabagas would it be "vegetative electron microscopy?"

Tennis balls are extremely expensive at this scale.

Bwahahahaha! 🤣

Just tell them you're studying high energy particle collisions. Should be fine.

The problem is the "erect ape"-"curved embryo" dualism and that the first ball has a high chance to shift the measured person to the latter state

Take that, diffraction!

this is also how radar was invented

It is the perfect test to observe the object changing it's state from completely solid to mostly liquid & pain. Fascinating.

I... uhh. I feel seen. <gestures wildly in absorption cross sections & Franck Condon Factors>

Very funny

22-year-old university student arrested for calling the president a dictator www.youtube.com/shorts/tEwoq...

By Nick D. Kim (web.archive.org/web/20150221...)

Macroscope?

It was only a few years later when the same duo was caught "joy riding" a nuclear submarine. It is unclear if any actions were taken.

Here‘s also some #STM scientists to follow! go.bsky.app/LKyQJm7

*apparent height in a scanning tennisball microscope #STM #SurfaceScience #CondensedMatter xkcd!

Weird, When the object is observed It seems we have changed it's behavior. The state changed to angry.

Meh. There’s plenty of humans that just prefer bonking….

www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences...

Oh dear! Double slit serves are next.

Mechamaru objects to being used like this

… my liege. (My brain’s autocomplete)

At what size does it become a macroscope

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Henry V approves.

It is a perfect correlation between excitement and inability to know in advance the result.

He's the Pixar Guy, obviously

Are electrons Latino?

Transgender Tennis Balls😜

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Mouseover text: "After initial tests created a series of large holes in the wall of the lab, the higher-power Scanning Tunneling Tennis Ball Microscope project was quickly shut down."

Why does the person being hit by balls sound "Ow-bonk-Ow"? Are them wearing an armor without a helmet and barefoot?

Life after DOGE finishes dismantling America's scientific community, I presume? Where people look at solar eclipses with bare naked eyes like the Dumbass in Chief cuz there's no real doctors except RFK Jr cosplaying as one? NOT US DEMOCRATS! #RatBastardNaziTrump

Sorry, but we never get past the first set of test subjects!

Gumballs instead? www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjz...

Then use a javelin with back and forth probing of sample person to determine their surface morphology. #AFM #SPM

god I'm furious now

You both are frickin nerds and ily hehehehe

Science. Dun right!

I laughed probably too hard at this at an IHOP

Needs golden retrievers to bring all the balls back.

At least it wasn’t a transmission tennis ball microscope.

nerds be like: science joke I'm like: yessssss

More like a macroscope...

Tennis Balls demonstrating Wave/Object duality...

The victim appears to be male

Title text: "After initial tests created a series of large holes in the wall of the lab, the higher-power Scanning Tunneling Tennis Ball Microscope project was quickly shut down." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3080#Transcript