Experiment Where Scientists Locate 1 Atom in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Over at the Enriched Xenon Laboratory (pictured) at Stanford, something very tiny is going on. So tiny, in fact, that it involves finding “a single barium atom in a 10 ton bath of liquid xenon–10^28 atoms.” (That’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms to you.) Researchers are trying to observe something called “neutrinoless double beta decay,” which must be…
