Copper.
What you see isn't so much the carbon atoms, it's their electric charge. You can't 'see' atoms at all because light waves are way too big.
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Tusk knows where you live, Wed 1 May 2013, 23:37,
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Another genuine question
were those atoms in that 8-bit style configuration in the first place or were they arranged to look like that? Because if it's the former I now totally believe that we're all just a computer construct like in The Matrix.
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There's been work done to find out if there is a base resolution of the universe recently
Nothing conclusive so far but if there is it'll be far smaller than an atom which are massive compared to their component parts.
arxiv.org/pdf/1210.1847v2.pdf
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 2 May 2013, 9:50,
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