Researchers have succeeded in shortening the pulse duration of an X-ray laser to only 43 attoseconds. With a time resolution in the range of a few quintillionths of a second, they are now able for the first time to observe the movement of electrons during chemical reactions in slow motion. [1] At some day we will be able to observe everything. And yet, it would not matter at all. Take the best microscope. It is useless. It sees nothing. You do. And no matter how much the resolution increases, the image in the mirror is the same… It is you… Looking up. From below…
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