Has anyone actually seen an electron
We actually have successfully imaged an electron.Now it is possible to see a movie of an electron.No scientist has ever seen an electron.The technique will let researchers see.So it has been done, though the video is slowed so one can see the path.
These aren't images in the sense you are accustomed to, you can't just point a camera at an electron and expect to get an optical photograph.On the other end there is no phenomena which can be explained on the basis of existence of ghosts.This is the first time an electron has ever been filmed, and the results are presented in the latest issue of physical review letters.No physicist has ever seen an atom but there are practical evidences which prove the presence of electron.It's tiny, but it's visible.
But still its effects could be tested.How will you refute his arguement?The movie shows how an electron rides on a light wave after just having been pulled away from an atom.Scanning tunneling microscopes can see atoms.This great slide bar animation shows how small they really are.