"What are you looking at?"
"They've filmed an electron circling an atom."
"So that's a representation of--"
"No, it's the actual electron itself."
"They've filmed it?"
"They've filmed it."
"That's what an actual electron would actually look like if we could actually see it?"
"Given the resolution of the camera."
"Huh."
"It says here it takes an electron 150 attoseconds to circle the nucleus of an atom. An attosecond is 1x10-18 seconds. Or, to put it another way, an attosecond is to a second what a second is to the age of the entire Universe."
"So, fast, then."
"And we've developed the technology to see it."
"Pity the human race is doomed."
"Yeah, sometimes we just do really cool shit."
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