Electron filmed for the first time

[Echotrail]

Until now it has been impossible to photograph electrons, given their velocity of movement.

View video.

Using a stroboscope and laser, a team led by Swedish researcher Johan Mauritsson, assistant professor in atomic physics at Lund University, went beyond measuring the end result of an electron's interaction, they tracked and filmed its process.

The movie of electron motion was created by a collaboration of scientists at Lund, Louisiana State University, and the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics in Amsterdam. Their method involved using a stroboscope and a laser that uses attosecond pulses to film electron motion. Attosecond pulses are a new technology that generate short pulses from intense laser light. An attosecond is equal to 1/1000000000000000000th of a second (that’s 18 zeroes in the denominator).

[rocktivity]

1. No sex threads

Oh, ELECTRON...never mind...

:blush:
rocknation

[BlueJazz]

2. I watched the Movie. Good Film but why did the Main Character go with....

...the Blond at the end. (I thought the Brunette was a nicer woman).
..But..aside from that... I LOVED the Car-chase scene....

[Dr.Phool]

4. When you run around with a Proton, you're just asking for trouble!

[Trillo]

3. Now that's a video I have to watch.

But damn it all, I can't open it on my 'ancient' OS (won't go into boring details). Maybe gonna have to do that Debian install soon....

Why isn't something like this published on Utube? (hint hint)

[Echotrail]

5. Some people already obliged!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofp-OHIq6Wo&feature=related

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

6. If you understood the significance of this development, your jaw would drop.

[cosmik debris]

8. Heisenberg must be spinning in his grave

Or somewhere in the vicinity of his grave.

[caraher]

9. Naah... Heisenberg is resting comfortably

In my old lab we did this stuff - using slower electrons. Neither this nor our experiments do anything to overthrow standard quantum theory.

In fact, if you know how to "read" the video it's a nice demonstration of the uncertainty principle in action. If you localize the electron (thereby making position uncertainty small) you increase the uncertainty in momentum... which you can pretty much see in all the "ripples."

[Echotrail]

7. oops! I forgot the link to the rest of the article

http://www.fleshandstone.net/healthandsciencenews/electronfilmed.html