But he stresses that this is only on the atomic scale - no Captain Kirks have been beamed up.

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STM, a device that made it possible to image and study structures and processes on the atomic scale and in three dimensions (see article).

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Both are ranked as level seven accidents, the most dire rating on a scale developed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

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For example, the distance between the centers of two black holes in galaxy clusters distant from each other and the gap between cell walls in a living organism differ on a vast scale, despite their sharing of common structures at the atomic level.

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Over a few decades this would amount to a minute's difference, but over several hundred years this would mean the atomic clock time-scale and the time-scale based on the Earth's rotation would be out by an hour.

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