It is possible to see a movie of an electron. The film shows how an electron rides, “horse” on a light wave after being separated from an atom. This is the first film of an electron, whose findings are published in the latest edition of the journal Physical Review Letters.
Before it was impossible to
photograph electrons since their high velocities have produced blurry pictures. To capture these rapid events so you need to use a series of very short flashes of light that were not available until now. Thus, by using a newly developed technology capable of generating short pulses of intense laser light, scientists from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Lund in Sweden, have managed to capture the motion of electrons for the first time.
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