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Do we assume electron is a single entity?
Or is it like a cloud of quantum matter with the energy potential, like a density field that moves around and we percieve as a solid electron. Or am I just describing QED...
additionally if relativity is correct, then scaling down to subatomic, shouldnt we also account for the time dialation in some way?
Comment by 170rokey at 06/03/2025 at 18:26 UTC
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Regarding electrons, it depends on your context. Electrical engineers tend to consider an electron, or even multiple electrons, as a single entity. Quantum physicists may think of an electron as any of the things you mentioned - and indeed a large motivation for the field of quantum physics is that we *can* interpret the "idea" of electrons in multiple ways. Particles, waves, probabilities... the most complete view of an electron takes all of these into account.
As for relativity, I probably can't give you a good answer, but you might be interested in the Wikipedia page for Relativistic Particles[1].