Electron in Motion

[stragke1]

electrons cant be filmed,

light is an electromagnetic

if u would "record" a single electron it would have transfered its energy and collapse, then u would just get a view of the impact where it hits u

try taking a picture where the your resolution is 1 pixel and the size of the thing ur watching is 1 pixel, u cant zoom in on it, cause ur at size of light,so u can see the whole electron perhaps, but never how it actually looks, ur limited by the resolution of the universe >_>

[Masterfootballer23]

Holy shit there it seems to try to tell us something using ambient music as it's language, hold on there electron, we will try to decodify your language.

[GK007001]

is this real??

can somebody say, which atom is that?

are those orbital layers?

where is the nucleus? why is it soo small compared to electrons?

[weiner7000]

too many nodes to be real. It would no longer be in the atom.

[yoda6523]

It looks like a spherical standing wave structure!

[colorfaked]

yo mama

[cludo88]

FAKE lol its a strobe light, maybe its just a strobe light behind a black piece of material or paper , but yeah this is deffo a strobe light and not an electron.

[cuteboyvj26]

@matataka electron doesnt move at the speed of light u dumb fuck*****

[ELANTICRISTO20121]

The blue lines are the orbitals????

[HotRock2010]

@ELANTICRISTO20121 good question! I wish people would title their videos properly and put a description where there is supposed to be a description. I am getting the impression that the whole image is suppose to to be a single electron!?

[camartinez6]

beep beep

[matataka]

this isnt an atom, if they were electrons a camera would not be able to pick them up, not only does light not even reflect off of electrons, but htey move at the speed of light anyway so the camera cant even pick it up....

[djancak]

@matataka photons can travel at "the speed of light" only because they are massless particles. electrons have mass (9.109382*10^-31kg), and therefor cannot travel at the speed of light. Actually, they move at less than 1% of the speed of light: about 2,200 kilometers per second, which is still fast enough to make it across the globe in about 18 seconds.

[matataka]

@djancak well if electricity is all electrons, why does electricity travel at the speed of light

[djancak]

@matataka electricity *doesn't* travel at the speed of light. didn't you read my last post?

[JamesTR4]

@djancak Actually it does. But it's the force between electrons that travels that fast (which is actually the electromagnetic field carrier aka photon)...The propagation of this interaction is not the same as the movement of the individual electrons, which move randomly (but with a slight tilt towards where the external field points to). If by electricity we mean current(flow of electrons) then it does move close to c...If by electricity we mean electrons, then no, they don't move at c...

[JamesTR4]

@matataka Because electricity is not electrons moving from A to B, it's a force moving electrons from A to B...Like dominos, the dominos are stationary but the movement travels way faster from start to finish... ^^

[periqa]

Way to screw it up by adding music.

[CarmellaWelkes8]

aahany nice guys out there who want to chat and talk on the phone

[zefallafez]

I've witnessed many elections in my day and this doesn't look like any election I've witnessed. Oh, an electron.

Yeah, that looks about right.

[UIWCardinalArmy]

i wonder if they sound like that too.. haha

[SmartGirl27]

Awe cute. Do they sell them at Target? I want a pink one!

[epilefcorrea]

creo que esto no se puede hacer, por la teoria de la incertidumbre, en la cuel no se puede saber la posicion de un electron y su velocidad a la ves , los electrones aparecen y desaparecen.

Ademas no estamos capacitados para ver tan poca cantidad de luz.

[banksmen]

Y QUIEN esta calculando la velocidad solo vemos al elctron es cierta posicion heisemberg cumple aqui

[epilefcorrea]

piensalo como, si podemos filmar (en el tiempo) un electron, y este no se mueve, entonces sabemos su velocidad que en el video es cero, y obviamente sabemos su posicion ya que lo estamos grabando.

Sabemos su velocidad y posicion a vez.

es sólo lógica la que aplico.

[epilefcorrea]

creo que segun heisenberg a lo mas podriamos tener una foto, pero aun asi la cantidad de luz emitida, creo que no se puede captar.

[girlsvsboys]

and this is the sound it makes?

[Maplesyrup41]

WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE

[pulsebpm]

your mom

[DustinDolby]

thank you for that

[quangphangbang]

liturally

[abvduality]

thank you!!!

[mimipipicaca]

what i wan to know is how a photon, through materialisation, can make a positon and an electron.

just like that, make mass appear. its pissing me off...

[Jijosue]

que bueno felicitaciones

el avance esta cada dia mas desde peru un ing. electrico

[kingofdice66]

i agree with amadeusk331 it's fake

[XPAcc]

No, it isn't fake. I read a short article about this video in the latest Discover magazine. The actual video is only 3 seconds long, and that was when it was slowed down a billion billion times.

[DJLorenzen]

Check this guy out, maybe he knows...

If the electron is within the wave, as said on some news channels, what is the wave made of then?

Check him out, maybe he know how it works

glafreniere . com / sa_electron

[thinker6236]

is the whole thing one electron or is it many electrons.

[ChrizzlRizzl]

its one electron!

[simex909]

Does anyone know what is causing the pattern here that looks like ripples in a pond? Is that what the electron really looks like, or is it inherent in the method of detection.

[nhojmabon]

Nice question, yes the electron actually does look like that. Quantum physics is pretty amazing, the energy of the electron is made up of tiny 'chunks', each extra chunk of energy added moves it into a distinctly higher orbit and vice versa. That's why you see rings and not a blurry circle, the electron can't exist in-between the rings because that would require a fraction of a chunk of energy, for some weird unknown reason this can't happen. Search for de broglie and bohr to learn more.

[simex909]

Thanks, man. Yeah, I know about de broglie already; I'm a big fan of the "wave only" model, or maybe a "more like waves than we think" model. Do you know what implications this experiment has, if any, to the wave/particle debate? Maybe there is a "fraction" in between the rings, it's just not detectable?

Thanks again, man. I asked this question on all the uploads of this footage, and you're the first guy to respond.

[nhojmabon]

1. From experiments we have learnt that it is neither a particle or a wave, it is what we call a particle wave :) Why? I wish I knew why it behaves like that. Feynman actually came up with an amazing quantum electrodynamics theory that explains things in terms of particles which act is such a way as to create the illusion of a wave, it is probably the best theory ever created in terms of its accuracy in experiment. I hear his book explains it with almost no math, in easy non-technical language.

[nhojmabon]

An electron may actually be able to fit in-between the lines, when trying to figure out how the universe works we certainly have to be open to that possibility. At the moment all experiemnts point to only discrete energy orbits, but it would certainly be very interesting if one day an experiment siggested an electron could exist in a forbidden orbit.

I'm not sure about the implications, check out their website it may have an answer I had a quick browse.

[nhojmabon]

When I first saw this video I thought "wow this fits perfectly with quantum physics". The rings certainly do complement quantum theory. Although there is ample evidence to suggest that electrons would orbit like this, it's nice to actually "see" the electron orbiting in distinct ring shaped orbits.

'MIT' have great youtube physics videos, they are very good and go into some detail about the particle and wave nature of light/matter, check them out if you haven't already.

[ricardofuentes66]

mee peelann la verga todoo el mundo . .

[amadeusk331]

I don't see a fake pussy around here anywhere...I don't see a real pussy here either. But I bet you have a few fake pussies under your bed, since the chance of you ever seeing real pussy in your bedroom is about the same as this electron reaching the universal constant...

[whiterottenrabbit]

roflol

[mokafoka1337]

it's a fake pussy

[chyr2211]

...

This is /not/ an atom.

This is an ELECTRON.

That would be why the video is 'Electron in Motion.' Now mention of an atom is there.

Secondly, the video was taken using a technology developed within the last few years that can generate short pulses of intense laser light, called attosecond pulses. An attosecond is one quintillionth of a second.

It an attosecond can be understood with this analogy:

An |attosecond| is to a |second| as a |second| is to |the age of the universe|.

:)

[amadeusk331]

The circumference of the earth is approximately 40,000km. This means that light can circle the globe 7.5 times in 1 second, or travel to the moon in 1.34 SECONDS!!!

[amadeusk331]

mmmm...Muffins. I wonder how many electrons I ate today.

[raflebi]

is this one elektron or those little blue circles are?

[Buster2440]

1 electron displaying both energy and mass properties

[beeche17]

wow awesome

[donkeyfart123]

uhhhh no

[chipmunkfilms]

If any of you mongrols actually believe this hypothesis that this indeed is actually a organic atom showing election acceleration then you should be ashamed. This depiction of an election is absolutely false.

[damienmull]

Read the papers, watch the news moron.

it ain't false."you should be ashamed"-idiot

[amadeusk331]

chipCUNTfilms, you are a fucking idiot...It does not matter WHAT ATOM the electron comes from...ALL ELECTRONS ARE THE SAME. If they were not, if electrons varied depending on atoms, IONIZATION of atoms and molecules COULD NOT and WOULD NOT occur. I bet you think the moon landing is false too you brainless fucknut...

[Horrorskope]

you are a fucking retard. i hope your children get lupus. i bet you think you're a scientist, go play with your home chemistry kit and try not to talk so much, it makes people hate you.

[EvaSlash]

what the hell r u nerds talking about. no one cares about fuking electrons.

[donkeyfart123]

thank u

[panterafan01]

without electrons, you have nothing.

[amadeusk331]

Evaslash you are another FUCKNUT... I bet you live in a trailer park, are a highschool drop out, are unemployed and on welfare...In addition to that, you are probably some kind of stupid goth-metal head antisocial cocksucking loser. No one gives a quarter of a flying FUCK, what trash like you thinks. Why don't you get the HELL off this thread and go comment on some drug addict metal band thread instead....Fucking jerk off.

[gammaray0wn]

This is real, if you pick up any general scientific journals you will prolly read about it. and LOL @ PoopyPaul's comment.

[argentineguy]

c'mon!!!...such a fake!!!

[Smiding]

This is not only one electron. Thats a pretty large atom. From what i can see it has 6 orbitals. And the blue areas is where you might find electrons surrounding the atom. The blue dots seem to be alot larger than only one electron.

[soraroxas90]

i dont get it.. if the atom has 6 orbital namely 1s, 2s, 2p, 3s, 3p, 3f that means it would have a complex structure of orbitals. from what i learn, s orbital looks like a sphere, p orbital looks like a dumbell or smthin like that. so is this image true?

[richieramone1]

huh...not an electron in motion.

[g0atsex]

dumbass

[dewitback]

which means?

[thedrugsarentworking]

This is very real. It's a pretty big deal because it is impossible to capture an electron in motion on film by regular means. This is due to their constant extremely fast motion. They used a technique called autosecond pulse which uses very short flashes of laser light.

[PoopyPaul]

Wow! I would have never guess that an electron made such gay music. Maybe we should stop filming them?

[ajaxouch]

For some STRANGE reason, I don't believe this is real.

[DarthJakol]

This is amazing, I can't believe this is the FIRST TIME we (as people) have ever filmed an electron.

[stegre]

are those rings the electron's trajectory (orbit) ?

[Peacenik]

looks like Tron

[Joshe99cents]

Yike! thats some pointless shit, Mr Wizard fan huh?

[EvaSlash]

the nerdy losers will invade the comments for this video/ o may gyyaad gyuze look at this electron

[Zwaffelen]

How can u film an electron anyway ?

It has to emit light (or photons) for that.

Isn't a photon some kind of electron that escapes from the atom when it drops to a lower energy level?

[Riphen]

No, a photon is not a particle, per se. It's the packet of energy that is released when and energy level change occurs. It's not an electron at all.

[Zwaffelen]

I'm probably not as smart as you are but light is energy right? And mass is a kind of energy. Doesn't that make light a mass ?

[tiswas666]

when we talk about mass it's normally easiet to talk about the mass something has when it's stationary (moving things have larger EFFECTIVE masses). If we do this for light then we say it has zero rest mass. However, if we look at a system including light, then the light will contribute to the total mass of the system, as it contributes to the energy and E = mc(squared) --> m = E/c(squared). And the video is technically of an electron colliding with an atom.

[BloodyRamen]

Square with ^2 , what you did hurts. D:

[amadeusk331]

Light is considered energy, but this is disputed by some. All energy must have the ability to convert into mass (Einstien's equation).Light is able to travel at the universal speed limit,"c", in Einstien's equation, which is 186,000 mi/sec or 300,000 km/sec Absolutely NOTHING with ANY kind of mass can reach this speed, or even close to it. So it is disputed whether light can be considered energy or mass since it has the ability to reach the greatest speed limit which the laws of physics permits.

[raiden233]

so einstein contradicted himself by saying energy has the ability to convert into mass?

[amadeusk331]

No, energy has the ability to be converted into mass... The weird thing is that light possesses properties energy (and thus mass), but is "massless" in itself since it is the only thing capable of traveling at or even near the universal constant ("c").

[Lathadian]

Could these possibly be strings in the electron that would support String Theory?

[UserNameAlpha]

a red hue would make it feel less cold.

nice work

[strawberrysubmarine]

If that's a video of a single electon, what do the concentric rings represent? Is an electron really shaped like onion layers? And would cutting an electon also make your eyes water?

[gshodges]

All I can figure is that it is an electron in orbit around a nucleus. Quantum Mechanics 101 says that it can exist in quantized states, and the "shells" represent the energy levels (n=1, n=2, etc). But, I don't understand the intensity bias between the top and the bottom - could this be the Stern-Gerloch experiment? Also, what about Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle? If you measure the position of an electron, you force it into a position state, and you don't get the wave form.

[Viriatus]

probably because of the wave nature of the radiation that captured this image, the electron is so small that in a way we can see this behavior. The light from this radiation has this form because of diffraction. Just guessing...

[Viriatus]

probably because of the wave nature of the radiation that captured this image, the electron is so small that in a way we can see this behavior. The light from this radiation has this form because of diffraction. Just guessing...

[PonuryMarian]

it's a blue butthole !

[jz33040]

Given that he/she ignores requests to explain the video more, I'd say it's probably not real.

[jz33040]

You don't tell us where to look. Is it the blue rings that are traced by an electron? Or is the whole thing an electron? Or is it just something that came from one?

[Calucifer13]

it's like from The Ring movie. Just waiting for the dead girl coming out from TV

[sth128]

Looks like the logo of Halo 3...

[aimpointclick]

electrons move too fast, looks more like an atom

[Birdtrooper]

That's no electron, that's an electric boogaloo !

But seriously, this is a pretty cool advancement, although I thought we could already do this, I suppose the difference is that they were stills before brought on by stimulating a momentary visible reaction and this is now in motion footage. Microscopes sure have come a long way.

[metiepatranquille]

beautiful lips

[SPARTA2]

youre not "seeing" an electron so much as a representation presented by the boundaries defined by the sensor

[duhCider]

Blue lip kiss.

[gjwaldie]

FAKE!

[lockinloaded]

omg its real!!

[burlappsack]

Looks like this might be a load of horse you know what

[marktech101]

Just one question: How was this filmed? Light microscopes can only look at small things up to a point, and then electron microscopes take over. They work by bouncing electrons off of the target to form an image. But how is it possible to view an electron when electrons are basically the smallest objects in the universe?

[platinumpig]

what am i looking at? Is that what the electron looks like? Or is that one electron zipping allover the place making it look like it is everyplace at once but mostly within a globular area?

[mostliberal]

I don't know if this is real or not, but if it is then the electrons are moving so fast that they're making the ellipses visible in this cross section of this atom. I don't know how you could film this. With standard light and film it's impossible because light is made out of photons, and photons are only emitted when electrons jump to the next energy level and jump back.

[hemi57]

Good grief, didn't any of you learn quantum mechanics in physics or chemistry? It is the most basic theory on the relationship between energy and matter for crying out loud. And somebody please take the crack pipe away from Birdtrooper.

[Demspoopwecleanitup]

No, sorry. We were busy getting chicks.

[hemi57]

I bet you were; you stud muffin. Out of curiosity, is your username indicative of your current profession?

[thedisruptive1]

what are u nerds talking about?

[modano182]

ahahaha im with you

[stylez59]

it looks like an atom with its different layers of electrons

amazing

[Booshibonton]

There's a camera that can film at four-hundred quadrillionths of a second? lololololol

i lol'd

[TurboLoveTrain]

They shot it through a Bose-Einstein condensate maybe?

[Birdtrooper]

It ( the electron ) keeps speaking to me, "GIVE RISE TO THE EVOLUTION OF DEATH !" she says "the little death, the perfect death is life and life is a stronger form of death". So there is a god afterall but the truth of this is we are all God, God (the goddess) is us. We've been God all along ROFFLMFAO so we have been obeying ourselves and the duality really is a singularity & vice versa

Satan loves us, please rape me Satan !

[Birdtrooper]

Because killing reunites the electric logos too but the thing about that is it's not as well, the frequency often brings spite to the Goddess except when it's euthanasia. I see now that empathy is almost like a test, "empathy" that is the only truth to the test sympathy. The Goddess is the Wave Existence

[Birdtrooper]

But don't forget that efficiency is also key, it's that she can't cum (not to be used as a joke, don't think of the immature jokes, cum is truth and reunion) without both as one so e.g. non sapient animals can be sacrificed for that electric sensation [ for we are omnivores ] which too brings us closer but never tortured, that would be hypocritical & thus would fail the test. The Goddess is a metaphor for the wave existence and thus a metaphor for our collective unconscious.

Love is hate

[Birdtrooper]

Holy shit dude, that really is what an electron looks like. Besides that I can tell because I can feel the electron inside me calling out to that one, they need to reunite with one another. That's the reason for all the violence and love, all the electrons subconsciously really just need to melt back together but no one can hear them so they mistake the message they're giving us and kill the individual but we should be merging through lust and harmony but only some times killing is necessary

[Stephenmercury]

is that an electron itsef or in orbit??? because if it is....dont atoms have energy level not lines (tracks) which they move along?....and heisenberg's uncertainy pricniple???

[foosballman]

is this a joke, or is that suppose to be cool in some way?

[darkwarcloud]

how did it get my place? =[

weird video though @_@

[lordcica]

This blue medusa thing is an electron? wow

Is it moving around an atom core, or something?

[sterby1]

Yes little Heisenberg, you can tell it after class.

[indemnis4]

Could you explain more about this vid?