First Images of an Electron

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[klsywd]

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

[XCcrev]

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

[TheRichardJudy]

@TheRichardJudy just a little help (fat fingered)

[TheRichardJudy]

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

[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

[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.

[bmx391xmb]

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

[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.

[nckey42]

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