>From Mark > Now sing along with me... from that ol' folk song... > "Where have all the neutrons gone..."
I did start singing. ;-) '> ...perhaps into heavy fermions? ;-) > > This from the comment section of the Knol page on CF... > > Consider "heavy fermion" superconductors > The August 2009 issue of Scientific American, pg 66 at left margin, > describes a 1979 discovery: "Heavy-fermion superconductors such as uranium > platinum (UPt3) are remarkable by also having electrons that effectively > have hundreds of times their usual mass." > > It might be interesting to find out more about the circumstances under which > electrons can "effectively" act as if they have hundreds of times their > usual mass. After all, muon-catalyzed fusion involves particles that only > have 206 times the mass of an electron. An electon actually only needs to > act as if it had about 50 times its usual mass to be able to catalyze > fusion. Careful Mark! You're beginning to sound like you're a Widom-Larsen supporter. Seems like them's fight'in word around this group. ;-) Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
