"Not-quite-so elementary, my dear electron" http://www.nature.com/news/not-quite-so-elementary-my-dear-electron-1.10471
It looks like an electron can be decomposed into a "holon," "spinon" and "orbiton" in some contexts by using X-rays. The holon carries the electron's (negative) charge. I wonder what happens with these things when the energy of the photons is even larger. Eric
