While it's mainly designed to measure objects, it can also
move tiny objects such as carbon nanotubes.
BEAMS of electrons can pick up and
move tiny objects, just like optical tweezers that manipulate items using light.
Not exact matches
Tiny and very faint, this fast
moving object (centre) was captured by astronomers as it passed through our Solar system.
Tiny and very faint, this fast
moving object (centre) was captured by astronomers as it passed through our Solar system.
But now they are becoming a reality — at least for
moving very
tiny objects.
Observation: Before September 14, 2015, the most sensitive detectors had not directly detected the
tiny stretching - shrinking of spacetime caused by a massive
object moving.
The collection of more than 100
objects is a treasure trove of delights: a miniature iron man with
moving joints; a robotic swan that enthralled Mark Twain; a
tiny metal woman with a wager cup who is propelled by a mechanism hidden up her skirt.
The analogy is to a movie projector, whereby things that exist only as marks on a
tiny strip of film appear to be real
objects moving across a large screen.
There is only one
object in our house that has not been changed even a
tiny bit since we
moved in ten years ago.