6 Oct
2025
6 Oct
'25
8:31 p.m.
(computational microscopy is cool because you can use math or software to defeat the limits of physics!)
(“how? How does it defeat the limits of physics?” “Well I am still understanding it but —“ “Just say how!” “One way is by retrieving the phase of incident radiation, one can infer tiny details of the shape and material of something it interacted with far below the wavelength of the radiation.” I think there might have been an analogue where you can make telescopes see bigger and farther too