Voyage into the world of atoms

This animation shows the structure of matter at smaller and smaller scales. Zooming into a human hair, we pass through hair cells, fibril structures, keratin molecules, Carbon atoms, nuclei, neutrons, protons, and finally quarks.

Produced by Daniel Dominguez/CERN
Copyright © CERN

[abeelon]

huge respect to the cameraman who has travelled into a quantum size

[huntsiespiderson]

If you zoom in on the quark, you can see the x in the mobile game add

[srijanpanicker]

Seriously amazing!!!!
I appreciate the fact that they used orbitals to display position of electrons rather than using simple Bohr atomic model!👍☺️

[wauhti]

Son: "My hands are clean!"
Mom: "No, there's still dirt in there.
*Points with finger to the precision of the atom*

[StandardName]

The crazy thing is the zoom from the orbitals to the proton. An atom is almost entirely empty space but everything consists of it.

[redskycinema]

I like how it went from biology to chemistry to physics

[kidnamedsolid]

Shoutout to the camera man who went right up into her hair

[justynpryce]

Love the subtle internal blue, red, and green coloring of the quarks!

[dolby]

Now, that's a high resolution camera.

[wlockuz]

This is mind boggling and the fact that we have observed these sub atomic particles with such precision and have gained so much knowledge about them is awe inspiring.

[tzaidi]

Love that last trip from the orbitals to the nucleus!! Insane that were able to probe such scales.

[fabiansackl]

How does this not have millions of views? It's breathtakingly amazing!

[J.Wolf]

I'm convinced that our entire universe is just a tiny atom sized spec of a much larger reality

[SakamotoSan]

That's the camera used in movies when they need to *enhance* an image to find a clue.

[delta_gm]

This perfectly shows how we are basically 99% nothing cause one Atom is litterally 99% nothing
Edit: atom is actually empty space

[attilarischt]

I don't know why youtube suddenly recommended this to me, but I'm glad it did. I didn't know the CERN has its own youtube channel.

[leciramaraya]

Perfect example of perspective on particle physics. NEW SUB HERE👌👌👌

[Sudarsan]

They even showed the SP3 hybridised carbon orbitals with an arbitrarily high precision

[msaocer]

Someone make an "atom lore" meme video out of this

[Ed_Crumbs]

Got chills by the time it took to close gap between the electron orbitals and the nucleus