First Images of an Electron

[kaleb265]

guys, there are alot if miths okay like, we cant se an atom only the energy they admit and like if we shine sertain frequencies we can see the protons and neutrons and shit like thats god this vid is fake i swere but you cant see the electrons, i foubt the evan admit light. also i heard we cant evan see atoms case of the fact that lite waves/ fotons are bigger than atoms but we van by shining lazers on it througj an electron micro scope

[TheRichardJudy]

@kaleb265 myths, can"t, emit, certain, swear, doubt, they even, even, because, light, photons, can, throuhh, microscope. Just a little helk...

[TheRichardJudy]

@TheRichardJudy just a little help (fat fingered)

[kedwardsTWO]

this is fake (well, the title, it is not of the electron) for one reason, the visible light spectrum is far bigger than the size of a electron, meaning that no matter how hard we tried, we can never see what a electron looks like. How ever we could use the higher end of the gamma spectrum, but then that video would not look like that.

[chibraxial]

Hint: if you see anything recognizable (shiny surface, enginered holes) on the pic/video, then you aren't at particle scale... also, you can't actually "see" an electron.

[bugsiez]

You guys are smart.

[warriors41]

they look like little itty bitty stars :)

[Jordainio]

I bet I just saw the particles in a different place than YOU did!!!!

hah

[shomoud]

mummmmmmmmmmyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy­yyyyyyyyy

[ThmJBurke]

I think I'm just seeing photons.

[jasonrulz24]

You could see the electron but for a split second and the light or color it produces. I am not sure fully if you can acctually see the electron.

[zuklonbe]

you can never take a picture of an electron!

[bdhcarbon]

nope, someone just forget to clean the chamber before :P

[Scraleontis]

Look! There goes God

[shark777538]

@19Paramount19 xD

[Burnz2much]

Everywhere, but nowhere..

[NickMB]

Great. Now show us a higgs boson.

[hornetobiker]

Great. Now show us a quark.

[derman077]

What did all the idiots of the world do before they invented the youtube comment box?

[shark777538]

@derman077 They sent snail mail :D

[jimmyti9cer]

That is NOT an electron!!!

[aversilover]

Nice observasion Now i want to study more of the ECO-System!

And atoms.

[DrOvyZ]

there is no fucking way thats an electron and for those who dont know id say its not just bc of the fact that its tooooooooo small to see, i think what ur seeing is the explosive energy that comes from it

[jacksawild]

Throw a particle at a particle and by the time it bounces back, the reading is useless as what you are measuring describes a particle at contact, which has now changed. This is why it is said we can know a speed or a location but not both simultaneously. FTL particles might be able to get round this limitation by returning before they leave; but that's only if they exist. In this way, particle paths and speeds can be tracked and their behaviour learned. If they have behaviour, paths or speed???

[BOOTLEGPIRATEVIDEO]

now i feel nerdy

[klsywd]

you arent actually seeing the electron, but rather the bubble it creates as it moves through superfluid helium

[HigherPlanes]

@klsywd Even the "bubble" is a poor representation of a supposed electron moving through it. It would be impossible to see it with the resolution depicted in this video. I guess some people aren't aware that we will never ever ever be able to see an electron or atom. Considering that the visible spectrum of light a human eye can detect breaks down at 450+/- nm, and an atom is 1 nm across, and electrons are smaller still, we will never see them. Below 450 nm all we see is a blur.

[Singerazboi100]

@klsywd Is it possible to see the electron?

[klsywd]

@Singerazboi100 One limitation to seeing the electron is the fact that the highest power microscopes we have are electron microscopes, which use electrons instead of light to "illuminate" objects. Since electrons are much smaller than light, electron microscopes can see really small things (~10000000X magnification). However, electron microscopes are limited by the size of the electron: they can can only "see" objects that are at lease larger than an electron is.

[TheClimberchris]

@klsywd I find it interesting that you say the electron are much smaller than light particles, (photons) because no one knows the exact size of a photon, it is extremely debatable. Also does it make sense to you that an electron (numbers taken from you) that is "10000000" times smaller than a photon absorbs photons so often and radiates them just as often?

1/2

[TheClimberchris]

@klsywd This is, of course ignoring the fact that particles don't have absolute size as wavelength determines size (being a wave) and if the velocity is altered wavelength is altered aka the size of the cloud of the electron and thus its particle size is smaller (this is what happens in particle accelerators).

2/2

[XCcrev]

I thought the uncertainty pricipal would predict that we couldn't see the electron without changing how it behaved

[valeryon123]

Even so, behaving and seeing is not the same thing. We can see it even though it stops behaving the way it does when we don't see it. Though that does not allow us to be sure that this is the actual form of the unwatched electron.

[davisw13]

it is being changed as it is focused (through a magnetic or electric field) and then again as it collides with superfluid helium

[b29349]

changed from what to what?

[lucasregan1986]

@XCcrev thats a theory "uncertainty principlal"

[21346678467875AWS]

@XCcrev Your confusing the uncertainty principle with the observer affect.

[MikeyyPe]

@21346678467875AWS Uncertainty principle states that we cannot know both the speed and location of an electron at the same time correct?

[21346678467875AWS]

@MikeyyPe Yeah thats because of wave-particle duality, the observer effect states that observing the electron requires energy thus disrupting the particle.

[MikeyyPe]

@21346678467875AWS I'll have to research that more in depth haha seems like something worth knowing.

[ablacklakeawhitelake]

@XCcrev No, the uncertainty principal predicts that you wont see Chuck Norris´ foot before it hits your face. You can only guess the position or speed of his foot, but not both at the same time.

[nckey42]

@XCcrev This does not violate the uncertainty principal.. Also, with better technology coming out every year, the uncertainty principal will fade away..

[charlotteBraillie]

@nckey42

Such bullshit! You actually think the uncertainty principal has to do with inaccurate measuring?

The whole point of the uncertainty principal is that even if we had infinite accuracy about the position, the uncertainty about the momentum would also be infinite.

[bmx391xmb]

@XCcrev we have no fucking clue what the momentum of these guys are.

[system0slaven]

this is a joke right

IT cant be that big or?

[mathfreak123]

Kinda weird. I thought we would never see the atom, which means we shouldn't be able to see the electron..

[jonas2789]

This is better explained by the relativity theory wich says that the mass of an electron is incremented when it's speed is getting closer to the speed of light, so with a particle accelerator, we may be able to inrease the mass of electrons till they are visible to us

[mtheoryrules]

Mass does not indicate size, its a "relative" term remember.

[denebgarza]

@jonas2789 I thought the theory of relativity didn't apply at the quantum level :|

[eaglex82]

ya adamsınız bilader.

[kadiritu]

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[unsalkorkmaz]

Ya elalem bi tarafını sıkar elektronu görüntüler.. türkler gelir kahvehane ortamı yaratır.. işte farkımız ^^

[AyCii85]

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Teşekkürler..

[iskence1]

hangisi elektron? ordaki yeşil ışıklar mı?

[Adrianlunnon]

Well you can't actually see an electron because photons are not dense enough to reflect them selfs back from something so small. Is the a visual representation or just a load of shit? <:

[Mizan215]

wt are u on bout, light are rays and not particles.

[johnremad]

no man photons are particles too

[farkob]

light is both rays and particles

[Mizan215]

light has no density, so it can reflect of evrything

[qborg69]

Wicked dude