Bill if you are going to body perhaps point out we can quantum mark each individual electrons in an atom, we can measure its energy we can even resonate it we can precisely knock it out of orbit.

We even stored 35 computer bits around a single electron in an atom back in 2009

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/quantum-holographic-storage-it-works/383

By 2011 they had produced 3D holographic probability maps of the electron orbitals confirming the predictions of QM.

http://phys.org/news/2011-01-scientists-holograms-atoms-electrons.html

In 2010 came the advent of attosecond spectroscopy and science started probing the individual electron photon interactions and energy in sort of photographic way

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1012.3863.pdf

From that point on almost every atom and valence shell has been probed a search on "Attosecond Time-resolved Electron Dynamics" will give some idea.

Hundreds of labs have sprung up in universities studying them because they give good easy images for students here is a typical example

http://www.attoworld.de/Home/ourResearch...copy/index.html

and an interview with one of the students might be interesting

http://www.attoworld.de/Home/ourTeam/Interviews/MatthiasKling/index.html

The attosecond imaging helps because you can think up some quirky QM things that theory says should happen if you setup and experiment and it always does.

BUT WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS GOING ON ... WAVES HANDS

Edit: I should say this weeks announcement is going to push things along in this area
http://phys.org/news/2012-09-attosecond-extreme-ultraviolet-laser-pulse.html

Last edited by Orac; 09/06/12 04:26 AM.

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