YOU don’t generally think of electrons as nervous. Yet observe one closely enough and that is exactly how it might appear. As it zips through the vacuum, the lightest known fundamental particle displays a super-fast trembling motion whose name every Scrabble player in the world ought to have firmly in the front of their mind: Zitterbewegung.
“As it zips though the vacuum the electron exhibits a super-fast trembling motion”
The phenomenon was discovered in 1930 by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, one of the founding fathers of quantum theory, that fabulously successful description of the microscopic world of…
