{"id":205383,"date":"2025-02-03T18:28:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T00:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/historic-breakthrough-in-quantum-physics-true-form-of-electrons-finally-revealed"},"modified":"2025-02-03T18:28:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T00:28:22","slug":"historic-breakthrough-in-quantum-physics-true-form-of-electrons-finally-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/historic-breakthrough-in-quantum-physics-true-form-of-electrons-finally-revealed","title":{"rendered":"Historic Breakthrough in Quantum Physics \u2014 True Form of Electrons Finally Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/historic-breakthrough-in-quantum-physics-true-form-of-electrons-finally-revealed.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time ever, <a href=\"https:\/\/eladelantado.com\/news\/planet-nine-solar-system-discovery\/\">scientists<\/a> have managed to snap a picture of an electron\u2019s shape while it moves through a solid. While it doesn\u2019t sound remotely impressive for the average Joe, this discovery gives us a whole new way to look at electrons.<\/p>\n<p>This photographic achievement could lead to big changes in things like quantum computers, futuristic electronics, and maybe even gadgets we haven\u2019t imagined yet. The research was led by physicist Riccardo Comin, a professor at MIT, along with a team of collaborators from various institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve essentially created a blueprint for uncovering completely new insights that were out of reach before,\u201d explains Comin. His colleague and co-author, Mingu Kang, carried out much of the work at MIT before continuing his research at Cornell University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time ever, scientists have managed to snap a picture of an electron\u2019s shape while it moves through a solid. While it doesn\u2019t sound remotely impressive for the average Joe, this discovery gives us a whole new way to look at electrons. This photographic achievement could lead to big changes in things like [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}