feralimal

Of course your eye is a sensor. As are all your senses. The difference is that the input it receives is unmediated by external sensors and software. Visualising atoms or DNA is fine, but it is an inferior source of information. By a long way.

Imagine you were born deaf and couldn't hear music. But that someone showed you a music visualiser.

Do you think if you were watching the output of that visualiser you would now know the music in some meaningful way?

Yes, look at all that squashed DNA, lol.

Seriously though, how do we know that is DNA? It just looks like wiggly worms.

And the DNA pic is black and white, but the picture of graphite is in colour. How is it in colour? Is it 'enhanced' with photoshop or something?

You don't think there's a difference between what you see with your naked eye, and what is visualised for you by sensors and software?