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Electron Filmed In Motion For First Time
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With the use of a newly developed technology for generating short pulses from intense laser light, scientists in Sweden have managed to capture the electron's motion for the first time.

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What you see is basically a single oscillation of light and the “energy distribution of the electron” in slow motion.
It takes about 150 attoseconds for an electron to circle the nucleus of an atom. An attosecond is 10−18 seconds long, or, expressed in another way: an attosecond is related to a second as a second is related to the age of the universe.
Although not a capture of movement in the traditional sense but rather a representation of the electron's energy distribution, it is the still the first filmed sequence of the entire event, as opposed to previous attempts that used indirect methods.
More info: Science Daily   Attosecond Physics

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