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What Does An Electron ACTUALLY Look Like?

PBS Space Time · Season 2024 · Episode 32
What does an electron really look like? I mean, if we zoom in all the way. Is it a sizeless speck of charge? Is it a multidimensional vortex of quantum strangeness? Is it the boundary of a tiny universe with universe-electrons of its own? Let’s find out.

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Season
2024
Episode
32
Air Date
12/Dec/2024
Air Time
12:00
Runtime
16 min

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What does an electron really look like? I mean, if we zoom in all the way. Is it a sizeless speck of charge? Is it a multidimensional vortex of quantum strangeness? Is it the boundary of a tiny universe with universe-electrons of its own? Let’s find out.

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