Atoms are famously camera-shy. This dazzling custom rig can catch them.

Photo caption: When built, the MAGIS-100 atom interferometer will be the largest in the world. But it’s still missing a key component: a detailed camera. Photo credit: Stanford University. Article by Rahul Rao. Popular Science – August 28, 2022.

The mirror-studded camera is designed to take glamour shots of quantum physics experiments.

In suburban Chicago, about 34 miles west of Lake Michigan, sits a hole in the ground that goes about 330 feet straight down. Long ago, scientists had the shaft drilled for a particle physics experiment that’s long vanished from this world. Now, in a few short years, they will reuse the shaft for a new project with the mystical name MAGIS-100. […]

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