http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png http://io9.com/tag/electrons http://io9.com/tag/electrons Here's the world's first video of an electron in motion, showing how an electron rides on a light wave after having just been pulled away from an atom. Electrons move so fast, it's almost impossible to generate a short enough burst of light to be able to see them move. But a new camera generates "attosecond pulses." (An attosecond is to a regular second as a second is to the age of the universe, says the MARS blog.) The next step: Film an electron colliding with an atom. [Attosecond Physics and High-Order Harmonic Generation]

]]> io9-365453 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:53:23 PST Charlie Jane Anders http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=365453&view=rss&microfeed=true