A Boy and His Atom: Watch The World’s Smallest Cease-Movement Movie

What you’re watch­ing above isn’t your ordi­nary movie. No, this movie — A Boy and His Atom – holds the Guin­ness World File for being the World’s Small­est Cease-Movement Movie. It’s lit­er­al­ly a film made with atoms, cre­at­ed by IBM nanophysi­cists who’ve “used a scan­ning tun­nel­ing micro­scope to maneuver thou­sands of automobile­bon monox­ide mol­e­cules, all within the pur­swimsuit of mak­ing a film so small it may be seen solely whenever you magazine­ni­fy it 100 mil­lion instances.” If you happen to’re gained­der­ing what meaning precise­ly, then I’d encour­age you to look at the behind-the-scenes doc­u­males­tary beneath. It takes you proper onto the set — or, relatively into the lab­o­ra­to­ries — the place IBM sci­en­tists reveal how they transfer 5,000 mol­e­cules round, cre­at­ing a sto­ry body by body. As you watch the doc­u­males­tary, you’ll actual­ize how far nan­otech­nol­o­gy has come since Richard Feyn­man laid the con­cep­tu­al foun­da­tions for the sphere in 1959.

Notice: An ear­li­er ver­sion of this submit appeared on our web site in 2013.

Relat­ed Con­tent:

The Nano Gui­tar: Dis­cov­er the World’s Small­est, Playable Micro­scop­ic Gui­tar

Richard Feyn­man Intro­duces the World to Nan­otech­nol­o­gy with Two Sem­i­nal Lec­tures (1959 & 1984)

Stephen Fry Intro­duces the Unusual New World of Nanoscience