Eric, The plasmon conduction electrons in nanowires can be very "heavy" - i.e., they possess a huge "effective mass" when they impact a particle in the direction of the current flow (- but not in orthogonal directions.) Similar to a light metal plate that penetrates a strong barrier because it is mechanically coupled to a battering ram.
I surmise that electron "effective mass" is only converted to real relativistic mass as it climbs a potential barrier impeding its flow. As it ascends, "E=mc^2" converts the exchange photons inductively coupling it to neighboring conduction electrons into a cloud of its own photon "dressing" possessing real, relativistic, omni-directional mass. (Maybe this happens when it tries to climb a proton's effective electroweak barrier when pressed forward by a constant Lorenz force.) So, I expect that, if the conduction current on a nanowire surface is high enough (and quasi-ballistic), gammas originating in the bulk of the wire will be attenuated and scattered consistent with current flow. This might be testable by including radioactive isotopes in wire's bulk. If the gamma energy and directions were not altered, my guess is wrong. In case you are interested in how magnetic fields can act as reservoirs for delocalized momentum, you might want to read - "Thoughts on the magnetic vector potential" Am.J.Phys. Nov-1996 http://www.uccs.edu/~jmarsh2/links/AJP-64-11-1361.pdf Lou Pagnucco Eric Walker wrote: > On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax > <a...@lomaxdesign.com>wrote: > > Gamma sources could be placed so that gammas pass through the supposedly >> active heavy electron patches, and, if W-L theory is real, drastic >> attenuation should be seen. That attentuation should not be seen with >> controls. W-L theory requires 100% absorption of the gamma energies that >> would be generated from neutron absorption, so this should not be >> difficult >> to detect. >> > > I was thinking about this for an experiment as well. But how would you > establish a negative finding? What if you got some variable such as the > frequency wrong, causing the hypothesized electron patches not to work? > > Eric >
