atoms......?

Question

if we can see a flea, and a flea has a bug that is that small again, could that bug see atoms? (like a flea on a flea) i mean would it be walking around on atoms?

Answer 1

Lets try to put an atom into perspective.
Take and atom and make it as big as a sport stadium. The electrons would be dust motes in that backmost row of seats and the entire nucleus would be a pea at the center of the field. This is how "big" the particles are at the size of a football arena, so just how small do they get when you shrink it down to normal size. Or think of this, a tiny one celled bacteria is made up of lots and lots of atoms. Even it couldn't "see" an atom.

Answer 2

Sure it would be walking on atoms! You are walking on atoms, sitting on atoms, breathing atoms, etc all the time. The real question is does that bug have eyes.

P.S. We are pretty darn close to seeing individual atoms. Through electron microscopes, you can distinguish rows and columns of atoms. You can also detect the morphology of a surface (if one atom is high than the other atoms).

Answer 3

If the animal is coherent--can see, sense, or in any way detect an atom--then it's pretty complex. That tiny animal needs to be able to breathe, to eat and hence digest or absorb nutrients to survive, and will probably need to reproduce to exist in the first place. Despite how tiny it might be, those necessary elements of survival take up a lot of mass in comparison to tiny atoms. Imagine trying to make an eyeball that actually functions using only 100 atoms of any given element. Of 10000, even! It's not possible. Even the tiniest organisms would be unable to detect something as micromicroscopic as a single atom.

Answer 4

If you took one gram of pure carbon and had a pair of tweezers that were precise enough to grap one atom at a time. And at the begininng of time you started to take off one atom for every second You'd still have over half a gram of carbon left.

Answer 5

Not even close..... think of it this way... if you had an orange and you wanted to see the atoms in the orange, so you magically made the orange bigger and bigger in order to see them, if you enlarged the orange to the size of the entire Earth the atoms would be about the size of cherries.

Answer 6

that bug would have to be pretty damn small, the most powerfull microscopes can not even see atoms, scientists can only speculate on how they act and look.

Answer 7

No!...I think the atoms no doubt are much tooooooooo small

Answer 8

i dont think anything can see atoms, they're much too small

Answer 9

atoms are small particles of molecule.

Answer 10

ATOM IS THE SMALLEST PART BY ITSELF IT CAN BE SEEN BY A NAKED EYE. THROUGH POWERFUL MICROSCOPIC LENS ONLY YOU CAN SEE THEM.WHERE THIS FLEA COME IN THIS AT ALL?