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Better use a proton instead.

Electrons are point-like particles, ignoring their wave characteristics, so don't have a "size" per se.



Could make a cool animation showing off the fine structure constant going from classical electron radius to Bohr radius and Compton wavelength. That would be a total zoom factor of 18769 which is about right. The hard part would be designing an infographic to make sense to people who probably don't "get" what the bohr radius is, etc.




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