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Is it possible to crush an electron?

I am imagining an electron floating inside a metallic sphere. Then the sphere is charged so that the electron would experience a crushing force of some sort. What would happen to that electron? Would it collapse in on itself and form some sort of black hole analogue?
gpt
An electron has no width that we know about, it's worked so far to simply treat it as a point. 

Also, a sphere of charge would *not* crush objects within it, in fact it would have no effect at all! The forces in different directions perfectly cancel each other out on the inside of a uniformly charged spherical shell. 

For crushing to occur you'd need very different forces on one side of the object than the other. Since most forces don't change sharply like that, it's very hard to crush a tiny object.