i think something interesting to note, is that for the original experiment they were using an electron microscope to observe how the electrons acted.
problem with this is an electron microscope is an active form of observation, as what it does.. is shoots out an electron of it's own to measure differences in the waveforms to detect an electron.
possibly a simple way of explaining what happens is when you billow smoke into a room to see a laser beam. it's a similar sort of thing happening.. only what baffled the scientists is why their smoke ment that the laser beam reverted into a focused state rather than in the split state it had become that the original results suggested it had.
the answer comes from quantum physics, in the base principal that objects can be in one or more states at any given time. with the current observation methods where-by they are active rather than passive, it means that we cannot physically record what is going on without destorying a key state that an object can take.
what I always found interesting about the experiment itself, was that it showed that atoms weren't always in the same state; in the same sense that molecules have 3 states (gas, liquid, solid)
the physical make-up of a molecule doesn't change between states, but certain molecules will one remain adheasive to each other; provided they remain in a given state due to different temperatures that they change state. This is quite interesting to note on it's own because from that we understand that molecules can only interact when they are in the same state on a fusion, fission basis.
with this we can theorise that the same is true at the atomic level, and that these atoms (we know of 3, Proton, Neutron and Electron) therefor also have similar states.. again educated guess is that they are Solid, Liquid or Gas. (i.e. Solid/Composite, Waveform/Photon, Energy/Neutrino)
as they can change state, this must mean that it can't be the lowest level of building blocks. Hense why we have a Sub-Atomic building block that was called a
[/href]Quark, that build Protons and Neutrons .. plus Leptons which construct Electrons.
It's pretty interesting stuff though.
Something else that might really blow your noggins' is that through this experiment they discovered a new potencial state for particles to take.
Scientifically it's called a "Virtual Particle", but also is called a "Boson".. someone who doesn't know about this stuff might have a faint recognition to the word Boson; and with good reason if you follow the forum/news24 and watched the debate about if to turn on a new particle accelerator they've developed in europe.
Personally speaking, I think that current particle physics is off the mark a bit. It is basically all theory, rather than fact; and I firmly believe in a different theory regarding the sub-atomic physics model.
