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Nov 19th 2008 12:29PM

The microworld

Posted by: Rachel Been

Tags: Review

A few days back The Big Picture ran a massive photo of something microscopic... Obama. Although Obama and microscopic make for an oxymoronic duo at the moment, University of Michigan researchers decided to use Obama's mug to represent nanotechnology. According the The Big Picture "For visualizing the scale, most measurements below are in microns - one micron is a millionth of a meter - human hair is approximately 100 microns thick. " Obama is in the ether.

The Big Picture also constructed a gallery of other microscopic visions...

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