Movement of single electron captured on video

In a Novel and Ground breaking Experiment ,
Maris and Wei Guo, a doctoral student, took advantage of the bubbles that form around electrons in supercold liquid helium.
Using sound waves to expand the bubbles and a coordinated strobe light to illuminate them, Guo was able to catch their movements on a home video camera ... A few of the electrons, however, followed a distinctly different snakelike path. Maris and Guo hypothesize that those electrons are following the lines of superfluid vortices .

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[freemanx2x]

How about beta particles in a cloud chambre? They behave like particles not like waves...

[mythros1]

@Suspicious0bservers agreed, just to see an atom the focus would have to be fantastic and even then there would be no background lol. at the best possible magnification at present (stm), atoms look like beebees with no hint of physical distinction of an electron. so unless this guy somehow enlarged an electron to have greater mass than an atom itself, this is just a chemical reaction. im sure this comment was not needed. but then again some people...

[Suspicious0bservers]

@rty2ful not to mention that thing is trillions of times to big - they are seeing the effects of the electron, but not the electron itself.

[TheLordInglip]

@Theguywithrandomname funny guy

[TheLordInglip]

can we see an explanation as 2 how it was done?

[DKM101]

@Theguywithrandomname trololo xD

[Theguywithrandomname]

now we have to to is find the momentum of that electron at that exact moment



[rty2ful]

its fake!!the speed of electron is 3rd quarter of light how can u take photo??/

[derekroolz]

Incorrect, you are not actually capturing the image of an electron, You are capturing the presence of an electron.

[amoskowitz0103]

Interesting that no one has mentioned that the electron being followed and traveling through several pulses of the strobe was not following vortices at all, but was "behaving like a wave..." Watch it again.

Sometimes like a particle - sometimes like a wave.

Double Slit experiment anyone?!??! LOL

Of course this is a little "tongue in cheek"... thought I'd better mention that before the hardcore physicists jump me. Bubbles, bubbles, bubbles - I feel like the fish in the bowl in Finding Nemo.