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every single measurement is subject to measurement uncertainty. the mass of an electron will be quoted with some errorbar.

we had a quote in the lab at uni: errorbars or it didn't happen. errorbars aren't a weakness, on the contrary, they indicate how confident we are of some measurement.




The measurement of the mass of an electron is not the same as the claim that an electron exists, the latter of which is not stated with tolerance.




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