if you could stand on an electron, what would it look like?

Question

Would it be smooth? rocky like the moon? Could you see the Nucleus in the distance? How fast would you be going?

Answer 1

It wouldn't look like anything. It's just a point. And seeing it would be tricky, since any photon that hit it that you could see would knock it around severely. In fact, to stand on it, your position and momentum would have to be all smeared out like its position and momentum are. I don't know how that would feel to have my wave function smeared out. You might be going just about any speed, from completely still, to just about the speed of light. (Although the electron is always technically moving at the speed of light, since it jitters around in a motion we call "zitterbewegung"). I guess you could see the nucleus off in the distance.

Answer 2

The electron is the lightest known particle having a non-zero rest mass.
An atom consists of a small, dense, positively charged nucleus surrounded by electrons that whirl about it in orbits, forming a cloud of charge
At the center of each atom lies the nucleus. It is incredibly small - if you were to take the average atom (itself miniscule in size) and expand it to the size of a football stadium, then the nucleus would be about the same size of a single grain of sand. It is however, astoundingly dense: despite the tiny percentage of the atom's volume it contains nearly all of the atom's mass. The nucleus almost never changes under normal conditions, remaining constant throughout chemical reactions. Nuclei are themselves made up of a pair of smaller and more dense particles, the proton and the neutron, these particles are collectively dubbed nucleons.
The mass of an electron is 9.110×10-31kg, roughly 1/1800 of the mass of a proton or neutron. Each electron possesses charge equal to that of the proton (1.6×10-19C) but opposite in sign; hence they are said to be of charge -1e (where e is the fundamental charge).
Electrons are negatively charged and fly around the nucleus of an atom very quickly. So far, they do not appear to be made up of anything smaller

they are fundamental particles. They are extremely tiny, so small in fact that no one has managed to detect any size whatsoever.

Since the mass of an electron is much less than that of a proton or neutron, the combined mass of the electrons in an atom is not included in the atomic mass.
On the tiny scales of an atom, the particle model of an electron does not accurately describe its properties. An electron tends to act more like a water wave than a billard ball. At any one moment in time the ball is in some definite place; it is also moving in some definite direction and a definite speed. This is certainly not true for waves or electrons in general. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principlestates that the exact position and momentum of an electron cannot be simultaneously determined. This is because electrons simply don't have a definite position, and direction of motion, at the same time!




in other words its not posible to land on one let alone see one. as for a surface who knows if you stop one let me know so i can see it. as for seeing the nucleus it would not be possable as it would be like looking for a ant 1/2 mile away

Answer 3

It would look like a spherical cloud in which inside energetic micromasses would continually move & oscilate to form the total mass of the electron.
The electron rotates around another similar mass structure (called the Nucleous)which consist of heavier micromass structures called Neutrons and protons.The electron orbit velocity would be continually changing but would moves at a much greater higher speed than the Nucleous. In The free state of the electron moving freely outside the atoms ,its speed is aprox 4.19x10^5 meters per second.

Answer 4

If man could stand on an electron, he won`t be able to see anything simply because of the speed at which the electron is moving. This speed in question depends on the energy of the electron and it therefore difficult to predict at what speed the electron he will be standing on will move.

Answer 5

If you could stand on an electron it is unlikely that you could see anything.

Answer 6

It would not 'look' like anything, as the scale you are at is too small relative to photons, etc to actually 'see' something.

Answer 7

Flat and electrifying. !!!

Answer 8

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