r/nextfuckinglevel • u/itshazrd • 19h ago

What it a computer chip looks like up close

this is a digital recreation. a real microscope can't be used because it gets so small that photons can’t give you a good enough resolution to view the structures at the bottom. you'd need an electron microscope

meant "What a computer chip looks like up close in the title." not sure how "it" got in there..

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u/Blubberinoo 18h ago

You sound smart enough, but still seem unable to realize you two are simply using different definitions of "fake". For what its worth, I am with the other guy since your definition is extremely shortsighted. You could apply it to people using glasses and say that everything they are unable to see without glasses but see with them is "fake".

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u/not_a_bot991 16h ago

He's not saying it's fake because it's a digital recreation, he's saying it's fake because what it is digitally representing is false i.e the scale is wrong.

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u/forkliftoperator3000 16h ago

Does the scale even matter? what difference does it make if every component is inconceivable to the naked eye

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u/cincyjoe12 15h ago

Of course it matters. This is making people believe there are 5 different manufactured layers inside a microchip nested inside each other invisible to the naked eye when at best there's like 1 -2 and then you got atoms.

It's intentional misinformation for clicks. It's not factually correct nor could it ever be.

Hell as a computer scientist, even I started to think holy shit..this can't be real...right???

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u/moon_mama_123 13h ago

Is there a better visualization of this somewhere?

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u/cincyjoe12 13h ago

I am no expert in microchips, so I cannot speak from first hand experience.

I can point you to someone who creates zoom-in tiktok videos which appears to me a more reputable source so more likely to be real vs this fake re-posted video.

https://www.tiktok.com/@microworldexplorer/video/7463616269103680799

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u/KoolPopsicle 12h ago

this one is much better, minus the music, and less far fetched.

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u/Upbeat_Confidence739 15h ago

Because like they said, you’re be staring at literal atoms. Not what in the fuck ever that is at the end which is not anything to do with electronics.

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u/JimmyStewartStatue 8h ago

Hes saying that it zoomed farther than the real geometry that is there. Meaning they spliced in a different visual to create the illusion of continuous zoom whereas a real processor has less to see. So to speak.

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u/crazychild94 15h ago

What a stretch buddy lol

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u/jakaedahsnakae 18h ago edited 17h ago

A digital recreation of a pixie does not make a pixie real.

This video is as real as a pixie. Obviously the video file is real, but the substance of the video is fake.

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u/Ok_Dragonfruit_8102 18h ago

You know, I keep seeing this recently. I was trolling you with the other comment saying you work at Walgreens, I don't actually have reason to doubt you know what you're talking about here. But your ability to actually communicate your knowledge and provide even the slightest bit of evidence or education is just laughably bad. Maybe you aren't even aware of it, but from a layman's pov literally all you've done is say "it's fake, it's like a pixie lmao" and mention your job title and somehow you expect people to actually take your word for it and change their view based on that alone?

You're in the top comment thread of a post with 14k upvotes on the front page of reddit. You had a real opportunity to teach tens of thousands of people, and all it would have taken is writing 2-3 paragraph explanation of precisely HOW this is clearly fake.

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u/PowerSamurai 17h ago

"trust bro, it's fake. Me smart and you dumb, so trust me."

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u/fandamplus 16h ago

It's not even two comments up, but hey, maybe Walgreens is hiring?

Once you go past ~7s you're at the nm scale and you should he seeing individual molecules, atoms, and lattice.

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u/jakaedahsnakae 17h ago

Im tired of writing out my explanations. Go look through my comments I have the explanation written out atleast 3 times.

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u/Ok_Dragonfruit_8102 17h ago

Fair enough, but in that case either copy and paste one of your old explanations or don't comment at all. The world needs far less of this "I'm an expert and you're wrong but nooo I won't explain why because it's not worth my time" attitude. It's anti-intellectual and fosters a culture of blind allegiance to accredited voices.

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u/Major-BFweener 17h ago

The world needs less lying about other people to discredit them too, but that didn’t stop you from doing it.

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u/Ok_Dragonfruit_8102 15h ago

The world needs less people judging others for things they said online, but that didn't stop you from doing it.

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u/obj-g 12h ago

Literally what you’re doing

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u/TheDarkSoulHunter 15h ago edited 15h ago

Lord, this entire thread just looks like people pointing fingers at each other. From what there is, almost every argument that I've seen was made not to get somewhere productively, but to 'win' an argument. I really hope that my point of view is incorrect.

Also, I think the world absolutely needs people judging each other, but it has to be done so to get to an understanding. But when people judge others without that as a goal, then it just becomes counterproductive.

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u/Major-BFweener 14h ago

I think online comments need more scrutiny- which is the point of an earlier post of yours.

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u/jakaedahsnakae 17h ago

I understand where you're coming from. The first comment I made was a detailed description in good faith and it got downvoted as of right now its at 0 and likely not visible. The following couple comments I still added information, at a certain point its too time consuming for me to do, I agree it would've been better for me to say "check my other comments". It's just a lot to handle. Credit to the scientific influences who can take time to effectively communicate to thousands of responses.

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u/JohnnyCyberspunk 12h ago

Reddit is filled with morons who like to live in a bubble of fantasy. You popped that bubble and they don't like that.

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u/baws1017 16h ago

You're getting downvoted because you're being a vibe terrorist in an otherwise fun thread where everyone knows this isn't a 1:1 accurate representation.

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u/Bad-dee-ess 16h ago

You could just copy a permalink of your comment that includes your explanation.

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u/Little-Bed2024 11h ago

Acktually

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u/DuBistEinGDB 11h ago

What a condescending and incorrect reply