Electron

Find out what an electron is!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Physics
• Fundamental
• Particle
• Weak
• Charge
• Nuclear
• Force
• Radioactive
• Decay
• Electromagnetic

[magichristo]

If, in an hydrogen atom representation, the cloud around the nucleus is the electron itself in that energy state, how do we represent two electrons in the same shell? Are they "on top" of each other or what?

[cassiopeiaproject]

@magichristo Two electrons in the same "cloud" differ in their spin quantum number, and the interaction between their spins and their orbital angular momentum results in a tiny energy difference in the two electrons. Look up "spin-orbit interaction" and "fine structure" for more details.

[VicTheMouth]

Is the reason element s with a whole lot of protons are unstable because the force from the electrons orbiting above push it close enough to the nucleus induce it to the weak force?

[cassiopeiaproject]

@VicTheMouth No. The protons themselves each have a positive electric charge and so they repel each other. A battle ensues between the strong nuclear force trying to hold the protons together and the repulsive electric force trying to tear it apart.

[TehOwnerer999]

Am i right to say that the electron is a weak nuclear force gauge boson combined with an electromagnet gauge boson (photon boson)?

[cassiopeiaproject]

@TehOwnerer999 No, the electron is not a boson and is not a force carrier. And it is not a combination of other things, but is a fundamental particle by itself.

[barsoapdish]

Within a cathode ray tube, electrons moving at constant speed do not emit EM radiation. However, when they impact the screen they collide with other phosphorus atoms, exciting the electrons within atom, which in return, emit radiation.

[serrra14]

question. Electrons emit EM radiation when changing 'n' values with respect to the nucleus. However, when the electrons are stripped from the nucleus and are in a bound state, such as in a cathode ray tube, how do the electrons emit EM radiation?

[JFStarwood]

@chibraxial

Stop polluting the internet

[MR1QUEST]

thumbs up if you think the graviton is the best and coolest one here

[chibraxial]

This description is so wrong.... so primitive :/

There are no separate force......they're all the same. They even all share the same name "xxx Force"

*jedi mind trick* you know I'm right .

[SamKalirai]

@magichristo To answer your question, although chemists use the linear combination of atomic orbitals as a way to look at it, this model is simplistic. The model basically states that each electron occupies it's own hydrogen-like orbital and this is the representation ingrained on all of our notions of an atom.

However, the truer picture is that you must look at the electrons in an atoms as one collective structure...i.e. there is only one electron wavefunction.

[Rotemetoot]

Well when the quantum mechanics of the graviton and the neutron hit the proton on the periodic table, the electron orbitals (according to the scientists in Sweden film moving electron for the first time) emit protons, neutrons and electrons. The discovery of the electron led to "Killer electrons in space (seriously).

The electron configurations by Federico Franchi's Electron binds molecules, while breaking and making chemical bonds.

[Dogmaf2008]

I'm sorry but I do not observe the universe as complex as you stated.

[Huttate1]

@Singerazboi100 It is not a question of power. Think of a normal microscope. What is the smallest object you can view using it. Let us assume that it takes one photon hitting the object, resulting in a photon emission that enters the eyepiece to allow you to see the object. When the object gets too small the energy of the photon will impact the object and the ability to observe the object will be affected.

Now, what do you use to observe an electron?

[Huttate1]

You call the electron 'fundamental', which implies that it is discrete and irreducible. Is this not a naive interpretation?

I ask because we know that quarks interact (are created and destroyed) in, for instance, beta decay, and out of this interaction an electron appears.

There was no electron before the decay. Now there is. Is that fundamental or is this just a simplistic description?

[MetalSpiral]

So... Electrons travel through wormholes, right? And they're falling through just the right size of wormholes that light can't help but get sucked through... If our electron is making up an atom, those photons will be stuck with those electrons relatively forever... (but relative to what! ha ha!)

Welp, I just covered rainbows, magnets, electricity, chemistry, computers, life, and information.

What do I win?

[Singerazboi100]

@cassiopeiaproject At the start of the video it said that no instrument can view an electron, what about in the future? With much more powerful machines?