Daniel · 11 answers · 1y

What does an electron look like in your imagination?

Probably little blue balls.

Also, this reminded me of raisins. Probably because of Thomson's raisin cake model.

Like the ball of a Van der Graaf generator, with all the static coming off it. Hurtling around. Really small. Bouncing off things. Did you know there was a band called ‘Van der Graaf Generator’? No, neither did I.

I imagine it moving super fast in a confined region and you see its “trail” as a cloud. But warning .. I’m not knowledgeable in chemistry. I’ve only taken one chem class in my entire life, 20 years ago.

When necessary I imagine them as tiny blue balls with a white minus sign on their belly. As soon as spin features are required they lose all this charm and just are faceless bitches. I never could imagine them being hit by an arrow that is stuck and the tip is out and the feather is south. Never.

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