How do we know what an atom looks like?

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I cannot fathom a piece of equipment that literally zooms in so far that we can see a single atom. I’m assuming that the figures we have of atoms are just theoretical.

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Note also that at the realm of quantum mechanics, things don’t behave the way they do at our scale. Even if you magically shrunk down and magically shined a magic light to see, it wouldn’t look anything like what you’d expect. Location isn’t one place at one time, particles are smeared across possible locations and behave like they’re at all possible locations until they aren’t.

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