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Ah the equation makes a lot of sense - but I can see what nismaratwork means, we really have no way of telling if it is right, thanks a bunch any way, has helped quite a bit. I think i'll need a better understanding of the maths involved in the different 'pictures' before i can begin to talk...

Ok, thanks guys - it seems as though the case is one of those 'nobody knows' ones, though it would be plausible to estimate that the time taken is somewhere on the order of a few attoseconds. @ Dr Lots-o'watts: Although i can understand the nature of the equations you posted, I'm not quite...

@ Dr Lots-o'watts: Thanks for that, but it's not quite what i was looking for (although this gives me hope it will be measureable). The article states that the electrons began to 'move' on the order of about 20 attoseconds after being hit, but it doesn't say how long it took for them to be fully...

@ nismaratwork: So what you are saying is that either we don't know because we can't measure it, or that we have tried to measure it and it has always been 'faster than that' so to speak?

Me and a friend at school have been thinking about this question for a while and have come up with a few perspectives, I'm sure there's a 'proper' answer but I haven't managed to find one even after scouring numerous web pages. We are aware that the electron doesn't 'move' in a sense, only the...