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Melvin Moraa

How do you visualize an electron?

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Andy Wiskonsky  Follow

Dear John,

Did you read the next articles:
Article Gravity a paradym shift in reasoning
, Article Tényekkel igazolható a gravitáció valós oka


If we are thinking with fractal, we can get a better vision about our surroundings. It is a very fatal mistake to want to learn how nature works from mathematical equations... The mathematical equation is to describe our experience from nature...

Regards,
Laszlo

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Martin Yaney  Follow
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David Quinn  Follow

Electrons are not visualizable at least today.

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Declan Gibo  Follow

We are still far from an advanced technology that would allow us to visualize the electron.
When we learn how to manipulate neutrinos, that will be a great possibility.

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Bertrand Wengher  Follow

The Daon Theory gives an electron as a small sphere that follows a spiralling trajectory through space. The spiral is due to an interaction between the electron and the surrounding media.

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Marwan Anouar  Follow
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Data Val  Follow

There have been many temptations and attempts to represent the electron as a wave or as a wave packet. But the problem arose because such waves and wave packets are quickly destroyed due to dispersion.
But there is a case when the dispersion disappears. This is the case when the group velocity of wave propagation becomes equal to the phase velocity.
However, the equations of quantum mechanics that exist so far did not allow obtaining such a wave without dispersion. Because the obtained dispersion relations did not have a point of intersection of the phase and group velocities.
Pay attention to the interesting work where this problem is solved.

Preprint The wave function of the electron 2016


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Darryl Siemer  Follow
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Bobby Baucom  Follow




Is it really necessary to visualize it (the electron)? For most professionals, the wave-particle view is sufficient. This view is irreducible to the picture. The problem exists rather for non-professionals who (like doubting Thomas) want to put their fingers in. See artist picture. This is an "atom", electrons, depicted as balls, move around the nucleus in elliptical orbits (hello, Sommerfeld!).
The question is about the same level as the question of representing the structure of substance. I have met people who carried in mind school pictures consisting of multi-colored balls and sticks throughout their lives ...

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Beheruz N Sethna  Follow

Professor Dr. John A. Macken , thank you for the insightful never realized before question.
But no, I don't think there are many ways to visualize the electron right now. But not all hope is lost. In the future if humans ever make contact with more advanced civilizations, they may teach us how to do it. An alternative would be the full development of quantum computing.
Take care.

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Christopher Proescher  Follow

I will join this discussion and present my answer. My electron model started with the realization that light, confined by reflectors, exhibits many particle-like properties. For example, confined light has both a specific frame of reference and rest mass (inertia). Accelerating the reflectors results in unequal photon pressure. This results in a net force that is the inertia of the light's energy. Confined light in a moving frame also has relativistic kinetic energy and relativistic length contraction. Confined light even has de Broglie wave properties. This is explained further in the preprint article referenced below.
The quantum vacuum is modeled as a sea of Planck length vacuum fluctuations with impedance ZD = cω2/G. A rotating wave in this medium with an electron’s Compton frequency (ωc = 7.7x1020 rad/s) encounters enormous impedance exceeding 1060 kg/m2s. A rotating wave with this frequency achieves an electron’s energy with amplitude of just Planck length. This rotating wave electron model is undetectable and appears to be a point particle even though it has physical volume.
This electron model is shown to exhibit many of an electron’s properties. However, this model unexpectantly also was found to generate both an electron’s electrostatic and gravitational forces. Most important, the model makes falsifiable predictions. For example, one prediction is that the electron’s gravitational force should be related to its electrostatic force through a square exponent. This prediction is proven correct in this article.
www.researchgate.net/publication/353049276

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