You learned what an electron is in school… or DID YOU? You probably learned that it’s a “negatively charged particle” but there’s so much more to these weird, wild little particles than that.

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Credits:
Executive Producers:
George Zaidan
Hilary Hudson

Producers:
Elaine Seward
Andrew Sobey
Darren Weaver

Writer/Host:
George Zaidan

Scientific consultants:
Michelle Boucher, PhD
Michael E. Peskin, PhD
Paul Lujan, PhD
Brianne Raccor, PhD


Sources:

Interview with Michael Peskin PhD

https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/scien...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2...

https://www.nature.com/articles/natur...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146...

https://engineering.princeton.edu/new...

https://www.wired.com/story/how-did-p...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...

https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/pr...

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/...

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/...

https://web1.eng.famu.fsu.edu/~dommel...