This Soccer Field Is a Minute Achievement
From Times Wire Reports
A German scientist has created the world’s smallest soccer pitch, so minute that 20,000 of them could fit onto the tip of a human hair.
The playing field measures 500 by 380 nanometers and can be seen only through a special microscope, said creator Stefan Trellenkamp, whose country is host of the 2006 World Cup.
Trellenkamp said it took him a whole day to engrave a soccer pitch onto a piece of acrylic glass using an electron beam. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter.
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