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What Does An Electron Actually Look Like?

Season 10 Episode 29 | 13m 39s

What does an electron really look like? I mean, if we zoom in all the way. Is it a sizeless speck of charge? Is it a multidimensional vortex of quantum strangeness? Is it the boundary of a tiny universe with universe-electrons of its own? Let’s find out.

Aired: 12/11/24
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