How Physicists Took An Electron's Picture - Physics Nobel Prize 2023 Explained
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Published 2023-10-15
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The 2023 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to a fantastic trio working towards imaging electrons on the attosecond scale. I am an optical physicist, so I naturally want to take a deeper look at why this discovery is important, how it actually works, and what it unlocks for our understanding of the universe around us and how it actually behaves.
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0:00 Electrons and the world of the minute.
1:22 "Everything in physics starts with Einstein" - Isaac Newton
2:26 Breaking the 6 femtosecond record
5:27 How to build the world's fastest laser pulses
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7:50 How to see an Electron
9:03 Why don't you just use a single photon?
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All Comments (21)
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"Everything in Physics starts with Einstein" - Isaac Newton. I presume that includes time travel as well 😁
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But where was the photo?
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Your writing is excellent. Thank you so much for your clear explanations.
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As a musician and synth designer, this nobel price really spoke to me. And yes sometimes I think way to much about phase and harmonics. Great video my friend! 😊
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Really great video on the nobel prize. Great level of detail on the topic that hasn't been covered elsewhere.
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Local variations of wavelength within a laser pulse is really fascinating.
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The physicists who produced the first attosecond pulse won an attaboy prize.
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Holy moly... They did the atomic equivalent of a gravity sling shot with light on an atom to speed up the photons?! 🤯
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When working with an electron microscope in the 60’s, I found it very time consuming to keep millions of electrons from a 100kvolt electron source somewhat controlled or focussed, let alone deal with single electron events….amazing science.
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Thanks for showing electron Orbital & cloud in real time.
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Very clear explanation - thanks.
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Incredible explanation 🙏
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Fascinating sir, always “enlightening”
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Dude, this is the best explanation I’ve seen on this. And others Excellent
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i am so interested in the signal processing required to do this ... if you can generate a sub femto second signal is always in the optical form or rather whats the fastest electrical signal that can currently be generated ?
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Wheeler would be delighted! One electron universe - 10-18 - more atto seconds in a second than a seconds in our 13,7 billion universe -maybe it is just the same electron! One day we shall see the whole with the inner eye of contemplation .
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Hey Ben, thanks for the great video! One question though, shouldn't the energy of emitted photon from the electron after recombination be the difference of its kinetic and binding energy, instead of the sum?
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Very clear and mercifully brief explanation, thank you.
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I love that Chapter 1 quote :D
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01:23 "Everything in physics starts with Einstein." -- Isaac Newton -- ... killed me. 😂
