i wonder if this will help us see better what is there, just under our noses??

* We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin (1903-1977)

If we can now see an atom, could someone direct me to a site where there is a picture of it (the same way I can look at a magnified picture of, say, a biological cell)?

One of the benefits of getting rid of the notion of the intrinsic nature of reality is that you get rid of the notion that quarks and ice cream cones differ in 'ontological status.' These pictures freeze (collapse) the probability function.. We are still left with Sir Arthur Eddingtion's SOMETHING UNKNOWN IS DOING WE DON'T KNOW WHAT...

Here, Take your pick

Results 1 - 21 of about 38,100 for microscope atom.

I http://www.aip.org/mgr/png/images/wolkow.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">like this one

http://sdsu-physics.org/NaturalScience100/Topics/1Universe/timages_universe/atom1.gif

Thanks skwirl, I have seen lots of these. But where would I see, say, an ink drawing of an atom with all its bits labelled, like I could see one of a biological cell, say aimed at an 11 year old so they could get an idea of what one atom on its own looks like?