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Electrons are Frustrating

This concludes my very first go at SciArt Blitz! What a crazy month it has been here at Symbiartic. So many great science artists, illustrators, comics, and artisans.

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This concludes my very first go at SciArt Blitz! What a crazy month it has been here at Symbiartic. So many great science artists, illustrators, comics, and artisans. I'm so happy that I'm part of this visual science communication community!

To wrap up my part of this month's Blitz, I will share with you one of my recent comics about electrons and how maddeningly vague they are at times. Can't they just follow the rules of physics as we experience them? Sigh. I guess not.

Seriously, electron. You are such a pill. Cut it out.