A Movie in Atoms

A neat stop-motion movie made by manipulating individual atoms.

This is a great spark-the-imagination video because you can use it to talk about the physics of atoms and molecules, and what is temperature — they had to cool the atoms down to 4 Kelvin to keep them from moving too much.

How they did it:

More detail from Slate, and NPR:

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  1. Our boys LOVE stop motion videos! GREAT strike the imagination video for sure!! Thanks for posting! I’ve shared 🙂

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