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When Myrrh first thought of the title, "At the Edge of
Not Being Seen," it was still impossible to get
images of atoms. By 1987 tunneling electron microscopes
gave us images of atoms in crystal lattices. Soon, synchrotron
radiation x-rays will catch pictures of chemical
reactions of molecules in progress. In 1995, Astrophysicist
Roger Malina told her that some things like sprites
(a form of lightning at high-altitude) are so brief that
if you blink you miss it. But now videos have been made of them
But many elusive things are out there! "Dark
matter" for one. Some say that 90% of the matter
in the universe is invisible.
Physicist Wolfgang Panofsky of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
told Myrrh that the new detectors for sub-atomic particle events
are so sensitive they pick up too much data! Experimenters use
"filters" to weed out everything except what they
are looking for. What discoveries lie in
the data they set aside?
Medical Biologist Eric Sabelman marvels at the first
strand of a spider web, invisible until it catches the
light.
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