From Science Daily over a year ago (I'm surprised I didn't get this posted then):

Okay, this is WAY COOL. Scientists finally were able to take a video of an electron. Look at it revolve! I TOTALLY understand how light is both a wave and a particle after watching this. The things acts like both! SEE? The center of it's orbit doesn't change as it oscillates with the wave.

What do I mean? The frekkin' thing is moving in a wave motion while moving as a particle! Look at the center (black) while looking at the orbits - the orbits move up and down like a wave in relation to the center while the center in turn is also moving but NOT in a wave motion (can't see that as the "camera" is "panning" with the movement).



Ah! I love science.

There's a looped version of the video at Live Science. It also has added sound, you may or may not want to mute for.

As a related aside, this site has a very good simple explanation of why the above is important. This article is also a good set up for getting into Quantum Physics. But remember "those who claim to understand quantum mechanics haven't heard a single word". (I tried to find the source of that quote, but to no avail.)

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