what are electrons made of. If there is no current answer, what are some good references to work in this area

Answer 1

electron isnt a solid, it is just the most fundamental unit of charge.
just as u cant actually touch electricity but u can feel the effect of shock, electrons are just a cloud of charge.

Answer 2

Wikipedia is a good place to start looking
Current theory says that the electron is a point like particle with no internal structure.

"In Dirac's model, an electron is defined to be a mathematical point, a point-like, charged "bare" particle surrounded by a sea of interacting pairs of virtual particles and antiparticles. These provide a correction of just over 0.1% to the predicted value of the electron's gyromagnetic ratio from exactly 2 (as predicted by Dirac's single-particle model). The extraordinarily precise agreement of this prediction with the experimentally determined value is viewed as one of the great achievements of modern physics" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron

There is a theory called superstring theory (m theory) where the electron (and all other sub atomic particles) is a string.
if you could look close enough then the electron will look like a piece of vibrating string string. What makes the string an electron is the vibrations and if you could change these vibrations the string would start to act like a quark, photon, etc.

"In String Theory, the myriad of particle types is replaced by a single fundamental building block, a `string'. These strings can be closed, like loops, or open, like a hair"
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/qg_ss.html

There are 5 types of string in this theory but it is believed that they are all parts of the same underlying theory dubbed M theory.

Answer 3

Eelctrons are one of the fundamental particles. Meaning that there is no other particle that makes up an electron..it is the most basic that you can get. Look up "Standard model" for a better understanding

Answer 4

Electrons to my understanding are made of particles.

Sparky Miller
Wellsville, Ohio USA

Answer 5

electron is made of charge...and electron has a negative charge..