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pWhat you’re looking at is a single groove in a vinyl record, magnified 1,000x. Those lumpy parts? Dust./p
pThe image was captured under an a class=”autolink” title=”Click here to read more posts tagged #electronmicroscope” href=”http://gizmodo.com/tag/electronmicroscope/”electron microscope/a by Chris Supranowitz, a researcher at the University of Rochester. There’s no word on what specific record we’re looking at, but I’m going to assume that a picture as badass as this one belongs to Led Zeppdlin IV./p
pBy contrast, here’s a shot of a boring ol’ CD magnified 20,000x:br
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