The ones used for cutting-edge research still fill a room. It's hard to make an elaborate vacuum chamber and set of vibration dampeners small. The little ones don't require a vacuum and have a certain amount of fault-tolerance, but have corresponding limits on the resolution you can expect from them.
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Date: 2011-04-14 08:32 pm (UTC)