Thanks to Chris Supranowitz, a researcher at The Institute of Optics in Rochester, we now know that this is what the grooves of a vinyl record look like under the extreme lens of an electron microscope. Our inner audiophile cannot wait to get home, put a record on, and just sit back and visualize this. Peruse more grooves with us — which look oddly organic, kind of like sand dunes — after the jump.
You can see the difference between the pits of a vinyl (below left) and the pits of a compact disc (below right), the former more continuous and predictable, the latter more disjointed and random.
Here is a single groove in the valley of grooves, magnified by 1000. Note the clumps of dust resting lazily on the surface.
For the record, we don’t have 3D glasses on hand either but if you do happen to have a red-and-blue lensed pair, consider yourself lucky. Let us know what you see.
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Comments (5)
It looks awesome in 3D. Like staring at the grand canyon through a small window.
where’s the music
I concur with MrBig, these puppies look great in 3D! They remind me of what a bowling alley would look like if the designers were on acid…huge gutters for the giant bowling balls, and tiny squiggly lanes the balls would magically roll down for a perfect Big Lebowski strike-aroo!
These would also be the dirtiest lanes known to man…and somewhat resemble the surface of Mars (Hence the Acid inspiration)
would love to see with needle in the groove
Maybe my 3D glassees are broken, but I see naked women dancing to Madonnas “like a virgin”.
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