Yesterday I commented on what seems to me to be a milestone event in physics, the announcement of the development of a quantum stroboscope that can be used to study the motion of electrons. In the work, published in Physical Review Letters a day or two ago, by a team of Swedish scientists at Lund University, identical attosecond pulses are used to release electrons into a strong infrared laser field exactly once per laser cycle.

The promise of this work for differentiating between the LST-based model of the physical structure of the atom, as a nucleus of protons and neutrons, surrounded by a cloud of circling electrons at different energy levels, and the RST-based model, as a combination of multi-dimensional rotations of a scalar vibration, is no doubt highly significant. Quoting from the website of the attosecond project:

Attosecond pulses and pulse trains give us a tool to study how light interacts with matter at a detailed level never possible before! Attosecond science is in its birth stage, representing a great challenge. Not surprisingly, attosecond pulses are now the "hottest" topic of strong field laser physics and possible applications are raising equally great interest in the scientific community. The vision is that the generation of attosecond pulses will become a new tool for fundamental studies of electronic processes at the natural time scale, the attosecond time scale (one atomic unit is 24 attoseconds) and atomic dimensions. Thus atomic, molecular and even nuclear physics will be investigated on these atomic scales, bringing a revolution in our microscopic knowledge and understanding of matter.

Again, the site is located here: http://www.atto.fysik.lth.se/

The film of the electron motion is here: http://www.atto.fysik.lth.se/video/emovie.avi

More on this later.