Although after reading the article from The Economist, physicists need electron's cloud shape to be a 'near-perfect' sphere (but never perfect) to comply with t

Although after reading the article from The Economist, physicists need electron's cloud shape to be a 'near-perfect' sphere (but never perfect) to comply with the Standard Model of elementary particles. It's important to emphasize what you said, though: that the experiments still haven't found any "defect" in the shape of the electron's cloud that makes it a non-perfect sphere. I wonder what HN predicts? I'd say it's a perfect sphere and the Standard Model is wrong. Time will tell... Link to The Economist article (also in a comment posted below): http://www.economist.com/node/21518365 http://www.economist.com/node/21518365