In reply to OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson's message of Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:10:10 -0500: Hi, [snip] >FYI, > >A couple of days ago I sent a message off to Miles Mathis, mentioning >the fact that I just finished reading his paper on "The Electron >Orbit." > >See: http://milesmathis.com/elorb.html
Unfortunately this is wrong. He talks about electrons appearing to "swim upstream" because they are smaller and lighter than protons, however positrons and electrons also attract one another, and they have equivalent mass. Also, he fails to ask the question: "What would happen if the electron did hit the proton?". The answer of course is that it would be deflected, and keep right on going. The only other options are that it sticks to the proton (impossible because of conservation of energy and momentum), or that it combine with the proton to form a neutron, also impossible because the two of them combined don't have enough relativistic mass to form a neutron. So his entire spiel is irrelevant. [snip] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
