The media has been pretty sad about all of President Trump's success these days, and science has created the perfect way to respond.
Researchers at Loughborough University just created the world's smallest violin.
Let the sad songs commence!
This violin is seriously small though.
The violin is made of platinum and measures just 35 microns long and 13 microns wide, with a micron being one millionth of a metre. For size comparison, a human hair typically ranges from 17 to 180 microns in diameter, and the much-loved microscopic creatures known as tardigrades measure between 50 to 1,200 microns.
So, it's a violin for tardigrades.
The violin was created to test the university's new nanolithography system.
Professor Kelly Morrison, Head of the Physics department and an expert in experimental physics explained,
‘Our nanolithography system allows us to design experiments that probe materials in different ways - using light, magnetism, or electricity - and observe their responses. Once we understand how materials behave, we can start applying that knowledge to develop new technologies, whether it's improving computing efficiency or finding new ways to harvest energy.
‘But first, we need to understand the fundamental science and this system enables us to do just that.'
And what better way to do that than make the world's smallest violin.
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