Usually when we think of “art”, things like sculptures or paintings come to mind; in other words, stuff you can hang on the wall or keep in your atrium to be the envy of your neighborhood’s upper crust (everyone is lower-upper class, right? That’s what TV tells me).
But there is a new form that not only requires skill, it requires
science, and likely access to equipment most of us do not have in our homes, or possibly even in our city.
10. Nano Rose
This rose was created by a Taiwanese person named Pai Chun Wei at the National Taiwan University. It was made using Indium, which I didn’t even know was a thing. What’s next? Germanium? Oh, wait…
Most people have a hard time making fancy roses out of tomato skins, but this rose is mere hundreds of nanometers across; for perspective, a human hair is between 50,000 to 100,000 nanometers across. I wouldn’t suggest giving these to your significant other in place of real flowers any time soon (unless you are dating a nerd).
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