Electrinos?

["Paul O. Johnson" <pojhome@SWBELL.NET>]

If you're pissed at the thought of a bunch of EEs winning the physics Nobel prize, you can take heart in the theory of British experimentalist Humphrey Maris. He thinks interstitial electrons in liquid He, excited by IR radiation from a carbon dioxide laser, can fission into two sub-electronic particles. He calls them electrinos. If he's correct, it'll bust quantum mechanics as we know it wide open and surely lead to a future Nobel prize. Read all about it at http://www.newscientist.com/nl/1014/double.html

 

Paul O. Johnson

Collin County College