Sorry -- mis-transcription. That's 511 KeV for the electron. Eric
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:56 AM, MarkI-ZeroPoint > <zeropo...@charter.net>wrote: > > “Electrons moving in certain solids can behave as if they are a thousand >> times more massive than free electrons…” >> > > In the matter of Widom and Larsen, some fun numbers: > > mass proton: 938 MeV > mass electron: 511 MeV > mass muon: 105.6 MeV > (mass proton) / (mass electron): 1836.153 > (mass proton) / (mass muon): 8.88 > (mass proton) / (1000 * mass electron): 1.84 > > From the Wikipedia article on muon-catalyzed fusion: "If a muon replaces > one of the electrons in a hydrogen molecule, the nuclei are consequently > drawn 207 times closer together than in a normal molecule." Maybe you > don't need neutron formation -- I wonder if one of these heavy neutrons > from the Nature article could replace an electron in a hydrogen atom and > remain heavy. Would you then get something along the lines of > Hydrinos without them being Hydrinos? > > Eric > >
