In reply to David Jonsson's message of Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:17:16 +0200: Hi, [snip] >Hi > >I wonder if ZPE can be involved in the distribution of thermal motion >of low density plasmas. These distributions are found to be of >Maxwellian type even when collisions are too few to maintain the >distribution. This is called the Langmuir paradox. [snip] How can they be "too few to maintain the distribution"? Even a single particle alone in a container will collide with the walls (where there are lots of particles).
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