When you talk about microscopes, you imagine a piece of metal with a viewing port, some mechanisms for lighting, a few lenses and a specimen. Well, while this perception may apply to all kinds of microscopes, this is pretty generic and an expert in microscopy would say that you’ve probably never grown out of those student’s microscopes. Perhaps, the only time you’ve seen a microscope was during your Science class in your elementary years.
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Today, however, there are so many kinds of microscopes in the market. If you think that mobile phones have been growing like wildfire in the last decade, wait till you see how the microscope has evolved – at least for the past 50 years or so.
Today, you can already encounter terms such as the digital microscope, the fluorescent microscope and the atomic force microscope. Sounds fascinating? Scary perhaps. Then, you can also hear terms such as the inverted and the upright microscope – add to that the research microscope.
If you are not a man of science – and I mean a true-blue man of science – it would be particularly hard for you to differentiate one from another. For you, all you need to know is that the microscope helps you see things that are not visible to the unaided eye – that’s it! No more, no less.
But it doesn’t hurt to update your “scientific knowledge,” right? Thus, this article, will try to explain – using simple words – one of the terms in microscopy (the field of microscopes and of viewing small objects): the research microscope.
What is a research microscope then? For starters, the term is primarily associated with size. Size can be classified according to routine or research (for inverted microscopes) or student, bench-top, and research (for upright microscopes). An upright microscope is one where the lenses are above the illumination system. An inverted microscope, on the other hand, is the type in where the lenses are below the illumination system. This type is mostly used in studying cells that are in suspension.
Back to topic on the research microscope.
Basically, inverted or upright, a research microscope is big: it is the biggest, in fact. A typical research microscope weighs between 30kg and 50kg. Why is it big? Primarily because it is capable of a lot of things.
It can accommodate cameras and several other documentation accessories. It also has a versatile stage (the part where your sample plate is placed). Also, it is capable of Kohler Illumination (the ideal lighting). Some research microscopes even have built-in computers and monitors. In summary, the research microscope is capable of doing anything. This basically explains why it is so big, not to mention expensive.
If you are simply curious of the world around you, you don’t need an extravagant kind such as a research microscope. This type is ideal for scientists and researchers whose only job day in and day out is to study the very essence of cells and other minute objects. What you need is the ordinary compound microscope or a student’s microscope perhaps.
The microscope indeed has helped scientists discover a lot of things. Now, with the research microscope out and proud, it would not be long before they will be able to discover a few more things – things that will help commoners understand the world better.
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thank you for taking the time to explain some of these things
Exactly!
-Hey tribe! Look at this sharp rock! we can cut materials and tissues (..or use it to kill our enemy tribe)
-Now take a look at that piece of wool sticking to this skirt via static electricity! (hmm i could make it a force field and zap intruders)
-See how the DNA inside the nucleï is affected by those radiation and becomes unstable(… lets use those radiations in a deathray gun!)
-Check out this rubber duck floating above water (…future tells…)
Messianic Jew-
There have been times with I was without (or with not much) faith that I have seen God ('s works).
At times, when I least expected.
He can show him self without us doing anything.
so I'd say it is close to being right
I'd replace God with (answered) Miracle though.
There are 3 major funders: drug companies, universities, and concerned citizens.
Drug companies do these studies in the hopes of inventing the miracle cure that makes them much cash. It is for money, but great things can be accomplished and making money does keep the research going.
Universities give grants in the hopes of making a great reputation for themselves. Once again, it does keep research progressing.
Concerned citizens raise money out of the goodness of their own hearts. Then people who have given 6 years to college and have a 3.9 GPA get paid $30,000 a year for cancer research. But they do it, because they didn't get their education to make money. It can be hard for them to stay doing research because they have student loans to pay off.
In other words the system is mostly self serving, but it eventually gets the job done.
Yes it is really accurate. However, who cares??????
This is absurd because Carbon-14 dating is not used to prove ANY of the claims your article says C-14 dating is used for. It is not used to date the Earth's origin, as it can only be used for the past 60,000 years. It is not used by evolutionists to prove evolution. It is not used for any of this. Your article actually says that C14 dating can be used to date things that are millions of years old- yet no scientific claims have ever been made dating anything with C-14 for more than 60,000 years. This is a bald-faced lie. It simply can't be done. Your article is complete bull and any true Christian would be ashamed of spreading such untruth.
You are doing nothing more than tilting at windmills. No one with any scientific knowledge will pay you any attention, because your own article states that it has no proof of Creationism, when it says "those that point to a young earth, rely on unprovable assumptions. "
Mostly those that point to a young earth rely on ignorance (which includes ignorance of the Bible).
The religion that is afraid of science dishoners God and commits suicide.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
1+1= window
Well microscopes allowed us to better classify organisms (based on cell walls, organelles, etc), it helped us to better understand bacteria and viruses, thus helping modern medicine with how to deal with these organisms. Those are both pretty big topics you could talk about if you get some good research.
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It’s funny how people make the immediately jump to say this is for weapons, shows how most humans are thinking. Being able to understand the processes and structure of a cell is key to further advancements in medicine.
2+2=4
Genetics is the science of heredity and variation in living organisms. I do not base my understanding in Genetics. Genetics deals with the aftermath of Creation. There is no problem with genetics. A useful science for investigating Gods creation. You are correct the modern Scientific base is better carried on in the Labs all over the universe. Creation and Genetics work hand in hand.
cool
yeah they was to kill us off with nano germs. look at this person and if you see him….you know what to do.
i hope we can get deeper, i am so curious to know what reality is
e=mc²