Are all subatomic particles round ?

or do they have different shapes ?

Tau.Neutrino said:

Are all subatomic particles round ?

or do they have different shapes ?

they don’t have a shape.

There’s a probability that Boris is correct.

sibeen said:

There’s a probability that Boris is correct.

waves to sibeen.

JudgeMental said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Are all subatomic particles round ?

or do they have different shapes ?

they don’t have a shape.

Is that assumed because of their size or have we direct evidence

JudgeMental said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Are all subatomic particles round ?

or do they have different shapes ?

they don’t have a shape.

Physicists Model Electrons in Unprecedented Detail — Spoiler Alert: They’re Round

Electrons are extremely round, and some physicists are not pleased about it.

Why aren’t they happy ?

Tau.Neutrino said:

JudgeMental said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Are all subatomic particles round ?

or do they have different shapes ?

they don’t have a shape.

Physicists Model Electrons in Unprecedented Detail — Spoiler Alert: They’re Round

Electrons are extremely round, and some physicists are not pleased about it.

Why aren’t they happy ?

Gravity perhaps as is it responsible for giving them their round shape like is does with massive objects likes planets and suns

Cymek said:

JudgeMental said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Are all subatomic particles round ?

or do they have different shapes ?

they don’t have a shape.

Is that assumed because of their size or have we direct evidence

because the aren’t solid objects but fields, so it is the distribution of the field that is measured.

JudgeMental said:

Cymek said:

JudgeMental said:

they don’t have a shape.

Is that assumed because of their size or have we direct evidence

because the aren’t solid objects but fields, so it is the distribution of the field that is measured.

Maybe electrons are round if no other charged particles are near ?

Tau.Neutrino said:

JudgeMental said:

Cymek said:

Is that assumed because of their size or have we direct evidence

because the aren’t solid objects but fields, so it is the distribution of the field that is measured.

Maybe electrons are round if no other charged particles are near ?

the electromagnetic force is infinite in extent.

?

? i thought it was possible to model or measure the probability distributions, and the directional distributions would constitute “shape” ¿

or

is that so last century

¿

JudgeMental said:

sibeen said:

There’s a probability that Boris is correct.

waves to sibeen.

Shouldn’t you be particling to him?

The Rev Dodgson said:

JudgeMental said:

sibeen said:

There’s a probability that Boris is correct.

waves to sibeen.

Shouldn’t you be particling to him?

I sort of acknowledged him and I sort of didn’t.

The Rev Dodgson said:

JudgeMental said:

sibeen said:

There’s a probability that Boris is correct.

waves to sibeen.

Shouldn’t you be particling to him?

if he weren’t such a bohr i might do.

JudgeMental said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

JudgeMental said:

waves to sibeen.

Shouldn’t you be particling to him?

if he weren’t such a bohr i might do.

Stick to him like gluon

Tau.Neutrino said:

Are all subatomic particles round ?

or do they have different shapes ?

I see we don’t have a complete answer to this yet. Let’s start with big subatomic particles and get smaller in steps.

Atomic nuclei are never exactly round. They are almost always close to round, but there are famous exceptions. Such as berylium-8, calcium-42 and cadmium-107.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeformation
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperdeformation

Composite subatomic particles the baryons and mesons, such as the proton, neutron and pion, are never round. This can be seen for example in the high energy scattering of electrons off protons.

Elementary particles such as the electron, muon, quark and neutrino are believed to be round.

If it wasn’t for quantum mechanics, if electrons were described only by the equations of Newton and Relativity in the absence of quantum mechanics, then even electrons wouldn’t be spherical. It is quantum mechanics that makes them round. So looking for out-of-roundness of an electron is a test of quantum mechanics.

IIUC.