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From: "Merlyn"
> Contemplating collisions with Neutral or
Negative Mass
> particles boggles the mind.
> particles boggles the mind.
Not if you accept the argument and mathematics of
Randall Mills, and others, that the electron itself is a negative-mass
particle -
....not to be confused with Dirac's negative-energy
electron - nor to be confused with the ant-particle, the positron. BTW does
anyone know off-hand if Mills' positron is also negative mass?
Langmuir's paradox - the broader version - of
unexpectedly fast electrons showing up in any low energy plasma (not just
Hg) is probably a *sound* related phenomenon (Alfven wave) in which the sound
(kinetic) component accelerates the electrons to a surprising energy, well
beyond normal kinetics. One of the reasons why the Alfven wave has been
suspected to be involved in OU.
Below is a site that you can't access without
subscription, but all of the information mentioned in the abstract is
available online elsewhere. It is almost unbelievable that the author did not
mention Alfven waves in the abstract:
"Wave-Particle-Electric Field
Synergetic Auroral Electron Acceleration" Altair Souza de Assis
Abstract We discuss afresh the problem
of the auroral electron acceleration based on the controversy reports of Bryant,
D. A. et al.: 1992, Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 37, and Borovsky, J.: 1992,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1054, related to which mechanism is more tenable to
accelerate auroral electrons: dc electric field generated somehow in aurora or
wave-particle interaction due to auroral wave turbulence? Here, we show that
both mechanisms are important, and what is most likely to happen in aurora is
that the turbulence and the dc electric field structure will assist each other
so as to synergetically accelerate those electrons.
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