I wonder if the entangled electron theory helps to explain the photoelectric
effect from metal surfaces. It is apparent that the wavelength of a light
photon is far larger than the location of a single electron, but the end result
of the effect is that one electron per photon is emitted from the surface. It
would make a great deal of sense if many of them were working together to
absorb the photon and then one taking the energy to escape the metal surface.
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Roarty, Francis X
To: vortex-l
Sent: Thu, Jun 14, 2012 9:05 pm
Subject: [Vo]:Got Mass? Scientists Observe Electrons Become Both Heavy and
Speedy
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120613145418.htm
snip In a study to appear in the June 14 issue of the journal Nature, the
Princeton-led team, which included scientists from Los Alamos National
Laboratory (LANL) and the University of California-Irvine, used direct imaging
of electron waves in a crystal. The researchers did so not only to watch the
electrons gain mass but also to show that the heavy electrons are actually
composite objects made of two entangled forms of the electron. This
entanglement arises from the rules of quantum mechanics, which govern how very
small particles behave and allow entangled particles to behave differently than
untangled ones. Combining experiments and theoretical modeling, the study is
the first to show how the heavy electrons emerge from such entanglement.
