This spectacular computer image was produced in 1993 at IBM's Almaden Research Center in California. The 48 peaks forming the circles which is about 14 nm in diameter mark the positions of individual atoms of iron on a specially prepared copper surface. The circle is called a quantum corral. Why is it so called? What are the ripples that are trapped within the corral?
"Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there." -Richard Feynman-
This scientifically minded blog is an attempt to demystify, visualize, and partly understand the mysterious science of quantum mechanics as a way (Tao) to realize the true face of Nature and attain to enlightenment...