Electrons do not spin!

[Deleted member 619]

If electrons can not be broken down into smaller particles, does that mean they are infinitely hard?

That's not really the right kind of question. Hardness isn't something that applies at those scales.

All else aside, our current working model has it that an electron is a point particle, which is to say that it has no spatial extent. It's not exactly elastic, but it's not exactly inelastic either. It cam absorb and emit energy in the form of photons, for example. In fact, if the standard model of particle physics is correct, what thge electron actually is is a tiny little black hole.

 

[Greg the Grouper]

No, hardness is not actually a property of electrons.

Are you saying that they're not raring to go whenever a proton is nearby?

 

[Sparhafoc]

Are you saying that they're not raring to go whenever a proton is nearby?

Nah, they're all mouth and no trousers. They flit around coquettishly flirting with with the proton, but never muster the courage to make contact. And when proton tries to call, electron's mother either doesn't know where electron is or where he's going.

 

[Deleted member 619]

And they're always so negative...

 

[Sparhafoc]

Unless they meet a positron, then they're going to be *Bob Ross mode activated* happy little gamma rays.