Electron Filmed for First Time

Livescience.com via yahoo ^ | 2/25/08 | Livescience.com

[thefactor]

of course i do not understand the implications for this, but i know it's pretty cool stuff.

what would be the practical implications for this type of technology?

[thefactor]

please change the title to read “Electron” please. duh!

[DManA]

an electron to circle the nucleus

Do they really orbit the nucleus? I thought it was more of a probabilistic buzzing.

[VRWCmember]

One atom told the other “I just lost an electron”.
The second atom said “Are you sure?”
The first atom replied, “Yeah, I’m positive.”

[thefactor]

i do not think it is a set orbit like the planets around the sun, but the space is so small i do not think it would be hard to find one and film its movements. of course, the last chemistry i took was in high school.

[theFIRMbss]

>what would be the practical implications for this type of technology?

When electrons know
that they're going to be filmed
they will start dressing

in skimpy clothing
and dancing hot and sexy.
It's just another

example of how
media-centric living
corrupts every where.

[CrimsonDynamo]

Immediately after making it’s first appearance on film the Electron went on a drug and alcohol fueled bender in Beverly Hills and was sent to rehab several times before being committed.

[ElkGroveDan]

As they say on the teacher sex discussion: “This thread is useless without pictures.”

http://www.livescience.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=080222-ElectronRide

[Ultra Sonic 007]

Ping of interest!

[xJones]

This sounds fascinating, and maybe we can get some knowledgeable types in here. Nobody jump on my ignorance, but what (if anything) does this mean for the uncertainty principle?

[bert]

Perhaps I didn’t see the electron but if I did, it looks like accreation rings.

Are the accreations smaller particles yet?

[BlueStateBlues]

Thanks for the news and thread. I love science data, and the faster and smaller and more far-out the data the better.

I would assume that a photograph of an electron would crash the wave function, then a attosecond later it would be a wave again. Would this work out in the “real world” aspects of wave/particle theory?

[SampleMan]

What’s the shutter speed for that?

[thefactor]

i’m not sure. probably taken from a young japanese girls camera phone.

[thefactor]

wow, that was :30 i'll never get back.

actually it looks cool but what the heck is it? looks like an alien space cloud from an early star trek episode.

[Mr. Jeeves]

An attosecond is 10-18 seconds long...

That's "ten to the negative 18th power", to clarify. ;)

[thefactor]

i saw that and just skipped over it. i knew i was missing something. guess they don’t have superscript. thanks!

[HoustonTech]

The next thing will be electro-porn.

[RightWhale]

The title is no more true now than when the article was posted before.

[martin_fierro]

"SPRING BREAK ELECTRONS GONE WILD!"