There is an ongoing debate whether the magnetic moment on Ho atom on Pt(111) surface can be stable on the long time scale. The stable magnetic quantum state of the adatom was found on the time scale of 1500 s at 10 K temperature. The major advance of observing the magnetic remanence was recently reported for the Ho adatom on MgO substrate 4. These “single-atom” magnets serve as benchmarks in a quest for the ultimate size limit of magnetic information storage. Countdown to Final Crisis is the Anti-life equation.The study of single magnetic rare-earth (RE) atoms adsorbed on metallic 1, 2, 3 and insulating 4 solid surfaces recently became a subject of intense research. PS- Please for the love of Odin, do not read Countdown to Final Crisis. I hope I’ve shed some light on a character who is growing in more popularity with each issue of Blackest Night and hopefully will earn a back up feature in Justice League of America, Flash, or maybe, just maybe, be a plot-line with Brightest Day. These three books collect almost all of his ongoing appearances and Sword of the Atom is often considered one of the best stories from the 80’s.

Not much, but the guy was more of a team player anyways. You can find his stories collected in multiple trades. I suggest everyone check out Ray’s past adventures. If I had to name a B list character that is most deserving of a backup feature (or even a miniseries) that would be the Atom. The Atom just makes you feel bad for him and the crap he’s been put through. Oddly enough DC, the company that started the whole Silver Age Sci-fi type stories, has less Super-scientists than one would expect and they tend to not treat them well. Reed Richards, Bruce Banner, Hank Pym, and obviously Ray Palmer. The reason I enjoy this character so much is that he is a scientist. Ray is now a major player in Blackest Night and a 24 hour member of the Indigo Tribe. This would ignite a powder keg of issues and in the end bring Ray Palmer back to Earth-1. Ray would be ultimately found by the Challengers From Beyond. After a lab accident kills Earth-51 Ray Palmer, Earth-1 Ray Palmer takes his place (Got that?). For this spotlight, after learning that Jean was behind the death of a friend, Ray would shrink down to the nanoverse and never be seen again till Countdown to Final Crisis when we learn that Ray was jumping universes looking for a perfect world. This sets Elongated man down a road of depression, but that is a story for another Character Spotlight.

So using Ray’s size-changing belt, Jean would jump the phone lines and land in Sue Dibny’s brain, inadvertently killing her. Well a few years later, about 15 or so in real-time, Jean wanted Ray back in her life.

Ray wasn’t going stand for that and divorced his wife. During the adventures as the “Atom” Ray’s wife, Jean, would grow bored while her husband was away and slowly drifted into an affair. The two characters’ fates are somewhat interconnected actually. Well, Elongated man got it bad as well, if not worse. Of all of the Silver Age heroes, Ray Palmer has gotten the raw end of the deal. Let’s just say the idea is perfectly sound in a world where people fly in space with multiple colors of lights and a math equation can control lives I am not going to go on about how screwed up this idea is, scientifically speaking. He makes the great leap in thought and figures that the star chunk can cause him to shrink and grow. The Atom got his start way back in the Silver Age when Ray, a physicist, discovered a fractured piece of a white dwarf star. If you are reading Blackest Night you may have taken notice of a certain miniature hero jumping through phone lines and wearing purple. Article originally written by Jordan Jennings

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