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How small is an electron?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Limits of Our Ability to Map Quantum Concepts

What's practical to you and me is like electromagnetic forces, right? I know it doesn't make sense in terms of neutrinos or dark matter, but kind of what's practical is electromagnetic forces. And so couldn't we sort of maybe give a practical size to the electron because of that? Like what's the closest to electrons in one atom? How close can they get to electrons in another atom? Wouldn't that sort of give you a general size? Yeah. So far we haven't found a limit, like there's no point at which the electrons will not get closer to each other. We have some sort of limited resolution there in our ability to probe.

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