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Asked by anon-254590 to seancollins on 14 May 2020.
Question: What's the coolest thing you've taken a picture of?
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Sean Collins answered on 14 May 2020:
I would have to say that taking pictures of atoms moving around was something I found pretty cool. Some of these pictures have been movies and I’ve been able to watch atoms move around (the way I take these pictures puts a bit of energy into the atoms and so they wiggle around a bit while I’m taking pictures).
I also do some work on taking 3D pictures of very small particles. One of these that comes to mind was a tiny shard of glass. Being able to see the full 3D shape was beautiful and fun!
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John commented on :
I should be ashamed to boast about this but hey, I’m not. A couple of years ago I took some pictures of the asteroid 9064Johndavies which is named after me. How cool is that? Its on my webpage.
Kerrianne commented on :
I took a creative picture of one of our optical fibre preforms (a bigger version of the fibre before it’s heated up and made into smaller fibre), and I think it looks cool. It pops up in scientific adverts every now and then, which is always fun! https://proteus.ac.uk/media/image-of-the-month/iotm-july-17/
Susan commented on :
The superconducting magnet of the first experiment I worked on – 4 K is definitely the coolest thing I’m likely to work with!
I suspect you didn’t mean me to take it literally, though – so I would go with Super-Kamiokande (http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sk/index-e.html)
Rachel commented on :
I’m also going to take it literally – an experiment that was being done where the sample was at 0.5 K – that’s just half a degree above absolute zero :).