electron
I remember for some reason hearing from you that no one has seen an electron or an electric field, but physicists learn about their existence from certain phenomena in nature.
I told my physics professor this and the guy laughed like there was no tomorrow. He asked me a few questions that even I, with the extensive knowledge I had accumulated so far in half of the Physics 1 course, couldn’t answer. For that matter, he claimed, among other things, that today we know for every element how many electrons revolve around its nucleus and in what orbits they are, and besides, an electron is the bread and butter of physics and it’s impossible that they’ve never seen one before, and on and on and on (in good spirits of course)…
And now I asked:
Did I really hear that from you? And if so, is there disagreement about it among physicists?
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Tell the lecturer no before you get excited about chatting GPT:
No, no one has ever “seen” an electron with the naked eye or through a conventional optical microscope. Electrons are too small to be seen directly, even with the most powerful instruments operating in the visible light range.
But we do know they exist! There is much evidence for this:
Do you need Giphyti for this? Pishita.
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