Drude
5th December 2005 - 04:40 PM
http://www.physorg.com/news8730.html My cousin told me about it. This is pretty exciting. Like the B 60 ball, this is gonna be interesting if they can isolate it in appreciable amounts.
Moseley
7th December 2005 - 03:45 PM
This is indeed exciting and adds to my current distrust of charge explanations. I appreciate electron transfer in a P-N junction, and the idea of 'holes' in electron shells around nuclei being available, but I do not like expressions such as
However, when the mass of a hole exceeds a certain critical value - 80 times the mass of an electron - the hole liquid undergoes a spontaneous change to become a crystal.
We are being asked to accept that the hole has mass, although not told what it is made of. I have to believe we are beginning to probe the second generation of lepton interaction and before too long hope we can explain electricity more fundamentally.
Perhaps the electron has had a negative influence on our thinking.
Drude
7th December 2005 - 11:04 PM
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We are being asked to accept that the hole has mass, although not told what it is made of. I have to believe we are beginning to probe the second generation of lepton interaction and before too long hope we can explain electricity more fundamentally.
Perhaps the electron has had a negative influence on our thinking.
well said couldnt have said it better