What Does An Electron ACTUALLY Look Like?
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All electrons look the same to me.
as a chemical engineer, I am frequently thinking about and using the properties of electrons every day to do chemistry. And in general, the properties of these little things are pretty well understood, and we've gotten really good at making them do what we want. And yet, when you start to ask the question "what actually IS it?", all the sudden, the answers we have start to get more and more uncertain and fewer in quantity. Its crazy, the way the universe is just endless layers of complexity in both directions of scale.
I remember an introductory quantum physics lecture from Stanford (I'm pretty sure the series is still up on YouTube): "Electrons don't behave like waves or particles. They behave like electrons." It's a bit of a deepity, but it helps illustrate how unintuitive the quantum world gets.
As an electrician, it’s always blown me away at how we as a species have mastered controlling electricity but haven’t scratched the surface of what makes it tick (kind of); the electron.
A police officer pulls over Heisenberg and asks him how fast he was going. Heisenberg responds, "I know exactly where I am though." The officer says, "You were going well over 100 miles per hour back there." Heisenberg throws his hands in the air and yells, "GREAT, NOW I'M LOST!"
I saw one yesterday, it was visibly upset we didn't properly assign it positive charge by convention.
There's a certain trigger that goes off in my head, the moment I perceive, a change in the tonality, of the soothing tone's of Matt's voice, when he inexorably heads toward, that final point, describing to us viewer, something amazing, about spacetime.
Always enjoy the ability to explore those 20 orders of magnitude or so sitting between our smallest “particle” concepts and the actual Plank length where it all goes awry. The notion that there’s almost the size of a person as compared to a galaxy between what we think of as the smallest chunks and the actual pixel limit implies there’s just that much more we still need to understand about the Universe.
who else heard Schrödinger's cat meowing around 6:03
6:03 **Schrödinger's cat meows in the background**
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Top Comments (10)
All electrons look the same to me.
as a chemical engineer, I am frequently thinking about and using the properties of electrons every day to do chemistry. And in general, the properties of these little things are pretty well understood, and we've gotten really good at making them do what we want. And yet, when you start to ask the question "what actually IS it?", all the sudden, the answers we have start to get more and more uncertain and fewer in quantity. Its crazy, the way the universe is just endless layers of complexity in both directions of scale.
I remember an introductory quantum physics lecture from Stanford (I'm pretty sure the series is still up on YouTube): "Electrons don't behave like waves or particles. They behave like electrons." It's a bit of a deepity, but it helps illustrate how unintuitive the quantum world gets.
As an electrician, it’s always blown me away at how we as a species have mastered controlling electricity but haven’t scratched the surface of what makes it tick (kind of); the electron.
A police officer pulls over Heisenberg and asks him how fast he was going. Heisenberg responds, "I know exactly where I am though." The officer says, "You were going well over 100 miles per hour back there." Heisenberg throws his hands in the air and yells, "GREAT, NOW I'M LOST!"
I saw one yesterday, it was visibly upset we didn't properly assign it positive charge by convention.
There's a certain trigger that goes off in my head, the moment I perceive, a change in the tonality, of the soothing tone's of Matt's voice, when he inexorably heads toward, that final point, describing to us viewer, something amazing, about spacetime.
Always enjoy the ability to explore those 20 orders of magnitude or so sitting between our smallest “particle” concepts and the actual Plank length where it all goes awry. The notion that there’s almost the size of a person as compared to a galaxy between what we think of as the smallest chunks and the actual pixel limit implies there’s just that much more we still need to understand about the Universe.
who else heard Schrödinger's cat meowing around 6:03
6:03 **Schrödinger's cat meows in the background**