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Re:ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC by shiandow on Friday May 09, 2025 @02:02PM (#43939526)
Atoms are large enough to have noticeable Brownian motion visible with an optical microscope.

They're small but not impossibly so.

Re:ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC by fsckboy on Friday May 09, 2025 @04:55PM (#43940783)
mmmm, not exactly. you cannot see atomic brownian motion with an optical microscope, what you can see is visible brownian motion of otherwise visible particles caused by their collisions with molecules/atoms. this says as much about the momentum/energy of the collisions as it does about the mass (which bears some relationship to the size which bears direct relation to optical visibility)
Re:ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC by shiandow on Saturday May 10, 2025 @08:12AM (#43945026)
You are correct, but that is what I meant, even if the way I wrote it is either incorrect or somewhat unclear.