[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

“My question is, how did they get the molecule to stay still?”
Very good question. Molecules don’t stay still (except at a temperature of absolute zero). Also, one is tempted to ask if the molecules are smaller than the waves of light that are used to photograph them, because that would make it impossible to see them.

[Lazamataz]

Not if you imaged the molecule with new MicroPhotons^TM.

Twice the light, one hundredth the size! Think Green! Think... MicroPhotons^TM

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Dr. Ken Mellendorf
Physics Instructor
Illinois Central College

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It takes “seveners” to ask those questions we wish we had asked in graduate school. The “size” of atomic and sub-atomic particles loses its meaning, because these “particles” behave as though they are waves, or wave packets. So “size” becomes kind of “squishy”. However, with that caveat, the “classical” radius of a “free” electron is taken to be about 3x10^-15 meters, and the “classical” radius of a “free” proton is taken to be about 1x10^-15 — only about 1/3 the radius of the electron. However, the “classical” radius of a hydrogen atom consisting of 1 proton and 1 electron, the Bohr radius, is about 5x10^-9 meters about one million times the radius of either component particle.

I do not know that anyone really thinks of quarks and other sub atomic particles as having a particular “size”, in fact their masses are usually given in energy units of c^2 from the Einstein relation E = mc^2.

[aft_lizard]

Benzene rings are highly stable, it’s very easy to see why they chose this. As far as light goes all you would need is light in the visible spectrum, in fact that would be preferable as the radiation is weak and wouldn’t break the rings.

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Also, one is tempted to ask if the molecules are smaller than the waves of light that are used to photograph them, because that would make it impossible to see them.

The image wasn't created using light, or any form of photons.

Look up Atomic Force Microscopy.