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To: SeekAndFind

“Certainly everything in the universe that we see now, at one time before inflation, was smaller than an electron”

I suppose he was trying to simplify things, but how small is an electron, exactly?


8 posted on 03/18/2014 8:05:08 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: rightwingcrazy
but how small is an electron, exactly?

No one knows. We only know that it is smaller than the last size we tried to elicit from an experiment. Or it doesn't have a diameter.
18 posted on 03/18/2014 8:18:15 AM PDT by ZX12R (Never forget the heroes of Benghazi, who were abandoned to their deaths by Obama)
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To: rightwingcrazy
I suppose he was trying to simplify things, but how small is an electron, exactly?

They think the size of a quark or so. But we can't seem to see either one. It's all quantum. Duh! lol

24 posted on 03/18/2014 8:26:33 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (My whimsical litany of satyric prose and avarice pontification of wisdom demonstrates my concinnity.)
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