SEE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holon_(physics)
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:14 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint <zeropo...@charter.net>wrote: > Where does the charge go? > > Perhaps 'charge' is an effect which only occurs or manifests when spin and > angular momentum are combined... > > -m > > _____________________________________________ > From: Jones Beene [mailto:jone...@pacbell.net] > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 6:19 PM > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > Subject: RE: [Vo]:Spinon + Orbiton = Electron > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alan J Fletcher > > Terry Blanton wrote: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/19/splitting_the_electron/ > > But where does the CHARGE go ... either? both? If it were to go ONE way > then > the other would be charge-less and could maybe enter a proton. Once in, it > could call its charged buddy to come and join it. > > (Usual ignorant speculation disclaimer comes here). > > It is a good question, and the "buddy system" is not far off metaphorically > (as in a "condensate"). In 1997 we saw the first modern direct evidence > that > electric current can be carried by "quasiparticles" with fractional charge > (Weitzman Inst). But older experiments including those of Robert Millikan > himself, probably saw found this. Here is a good article with relevant > background: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasiparticle > > Millikan is regarded by some as one of the founders of American science - > but > he was also guilty of pathological science, ignoring evidence and fudging > experiments. > He held-back progress for a half-century on fractional charge, partly > because of an underserved reputation, not to mention the flawed experiment > (he only used about a third of his actual results - the ones where data fit > into the desired outcome). > > An updated, automated (and equally flawed) Millikan-type experiment was > undertaken at SLAC but it was seriously doomed by the assumption that > nothing less than about 15% of the electron charge would be found. And > nothing was found by them. That constraint changed the way the experiment > can be meaningfully run, since - given the ubiquity of the fine structure > constant, they should have designed a wide range experiment that would at > least look for charge as low as e/137. > > The results of the many experiments agree with a theory which was > formulated > by Robert > Laughlin to explain the fractional quantum Hall effect FQHE. According to > Laughlin, > electrons in strong magnetic fields form an exotic collective state, > similar > to > the BEC state. This does not rule out Shoulder's claims. > > But any BEC-like agglomeration of electrons, although it may fit in with > the > experimental work of Ken Shoulders, will need to "hide" charge somewhere. > Where? You ask. > > The sea, of course. > > Dirac's sea. Probably located "just around the corner" in reciprocal space > <g> > > Jones > >
