8/31/2004: Tiny opera house

Undertoad · 08-31-2004, 02:08 PM

Thanks to Archer for sending this along via here. What you have there is a scale replica of the Sydney Opera House, except that at 64 x 38 x 41 micrometers, it's about half the diameter of a human hair. Apparently it "was built from a hybrid material of glass and polymer by firing intense laser light into the matter in a liquid state to create what to the human eye appears as an almost imperceptible dot, but under an electron microscope it contains the detail and the beauty of the iconic Sydney harbour side structure."

08-31-2004, 02:08 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	8/31/2004: Tiny opera house Thanks to Archer for sending this along via here. What you have there is a scale replica of the Sydney Opera House, except that at 64 x 38 x 41 micrometers, it's about half the diameter of a human hair. Apparently it "was built from a hybrid material of glass and polymer by firing intense laser light into the matter in a liquid state to create what to the human eye appears as an almost imperceptible dot, but under an electron microscope it contains the detail and the beauty of the iconic Sydney harbour side structure."

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