Have you ever looked through a microscope?
It's a very different world from ours.
But this is what makes up our world.
Those are cells in your lungs.
Well, that makes you wonder what makes of this world?
What would it look like if you zoomed in even farther to the individual molecules that make up these cells?
We didn't know until 2009, when a single molecule was imaged for the first time at atomic resolution, and it looks like this.
Those lines, those are bonds you're seeing, bonds between the atoms.
Obviously, bonds don't look like green smears anymore than these meerkats look like this in visible light.
But that's the thing.
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