Electron filmed in motion for the first time

[alfhenrik]

Scientists have filmed an electron in motion for the first time, using a new technique that will allow researchers to study the tiny particle's movements directly.

Electron filmed in motion for the first time (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23336318/)

Mauritsson says the technique could also be used to study what happens in an atom when an electron leaves its shell.
That's pretty kewl...

[bobletman]

wow that is pretty cool. I guess you have to know about electrons and such to appreciate this. Wow im suprised they got such a clear image.

[Sadasius]

Now that is awesome news and will help with so many areas in science as we know it today. For the longest time predicting electron pathways was a hit and miss science. Now that they are able to see it's movement experiments can be narrowed down and a lot of money saved in R&D. Good stuff!

[bobletman]

Now that is awesome news and will help with so many areas in science as we know it today. For the longest time predicting electron pathways was a hit and miss science. Now that they are able to see it's movement experiments can be narrowed down and a lot of money saved in R&D. Good stuff!

next stop cure for cancer or who knows maybe a 50ghz proc. :)

[Sadasius]

who knows maybe a 50ghz proc. :)

Heck yeah why not? You could make a photocell processor that uses electron switching. Essentially making a processor the size of a pin head and run over a 1000 times faster then current processors. Everyone could essentially have a super computer in their house. But yet I still think it would only help achieve about 60 FPS in Crysis though...lol

[Methious]

That's pretty wild, I remember when IBM actually wrote out IBM on a piece of metal using single atoms. Now they can film an electron.

[zachig]

WOW!!! This is FANTASIC, AWESOME, COOL and VERY INTERESTING as well!!! :jawdrop: :grin:

Thanks alfhenrik for the link/info!!! :icon_tiphat:

[Enigmachine]

Very interesting, though I bet most people don't understand what they're seeing. :)

How do you film something that's faster than the machine you're using to film it? :) In any case it's cool to see the wave of an electron; it's a bit like when people saw Earth from space from the first time, it really changed the way they saw the planet. Maybe thanks to stuff like this people will stop using the little 'atomic' symbol with silly little electrons orbiting a nucleus on little lines... :)

[raidersforever01]

it looks moves around just like the way our chem teacher explained to us but now i have a better understanding of it after seeing that little clip.

[bobletman]

ahhh If only Bill Nye the Science guy were still alive to see this. He would **** his pants.

[slugbug]

If you're a Scientist, that's p0rn right there :lol:

[bromro]

ahhh If only Bill Nye the Science guy were still alive to see this. He would **** his pants.

Bill Nye isn't dead.....

[dumdum]

ahhh If only Bill Nye the Science guy were still alive to see this. He would **** his pants.


Bill Nye the Science guy is dead? I didn't know all this time watching him in school. Hmm.. about the electron thing.. can this help out future techs?