Monday, March 16, 2015

How small is the Nanoscale?

What could a stadium-sized bowl of peanuts, a shrinking elephant, and a crazed hockey player have to do with nanoscience? Those are just a few of the goofy excursions that await you when witty host Adam Smith and wacky physicist Ivan Schuller take you on an irreverent, madcap, comically corny romp into the real-life quest to create the smallest magnet ever known. 

This funny video (20 mins) restates the orders of magnitudes that characterize the nano-scale. It is a good introduction (and perhaps mandatory viewing !) for the new readers of my blog, as I often assume that everyone is comfortable at zooming below the micron into the "guts" of a cell, or basic architectural structures of a crystal.

Enjoy this video, and the blogs posted here.