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by doctor_phil 1004 days ago
>The electron seemingly has a diameter far below the Planck Length

According to what? We have nothing that can measure anything close to that. The standard model doesn't predict any radius on the electron, just defining it as point-like.

> Whether the electron and other subatomic particles are perfectly spherical cannot, as yet, be determined.

How can we ever determine something to be perfectly spherical? Any measurement comes with finite precision, and maybe the thing is actually not a sphere if we measured with more precision?

All measurements we have done on the electric dipole moment of the electron suggests that it could be zero. (The standard model predicts it to be non-zero, but very very very small.) This suggests that the charge distribution of the electron is spherical (or very very very close to).