When physicists of the last century were studying the nature of light and its application to the newly-refined microscopes, they devised certain laws relating to physical limitations to resolution. These laws had something to do with the wavelength of light being proportional to the limit of resolution. Lately these laws haven't just been broken, they've been shattered! But in all fairness to our predecessors, light is being used now in a manner that they could not have imagined. The scanning interferometric apertureless microscope (SIAM) recently refined by a team led by H. Kumar Wickramasinghe with colleagues Frederic Zenhausern and Yves Martin is a prime example.