Re: Positronium Anions: Electronium Exists.

2004-11-21 Thread Frederick Sparber
Jones Beene wrote:   > > I think that we always "knew" that a minimally bound> Ps ion would "exist" for some (very fleeting) length> of time. After all, there is no reason for it not to> exist for a few picoseconds... but what we really have> been looking for, ultimately, is validation of a> lo

Re: Positronium Anions: Electronium Exists.

2004-11-20 Thread Jones Beene
--- Frederick Sparber wrote: > This Austrian Article points out that Positronium > Anions Ps-e- exist. Interesting. It would be tempting to say that this is just the kind of validation which we have been looking for regarding electronium - but on closer inspection... probably not. I think that

Re: Positronium Anions: Electronium Exists.

2004-11-20 Thread Frederick Sparber
This Austrian Article points out that Positronium Anions Ps-e- exist.   http://pubs.rsc.org/ej/PC/1997/PC093147.pdf http://positron.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de/messungen/chemie_e.html "The antiparallel orientation of positron spin and electron spin is called para-positronium, the parallel orientation o