“Electrons moving in certain solids can behave as if they are a thousand times more massive than free electrons…”
Caution…Mass is condensed matter physics is different from mass as it appears in other physics. Effective mass of electron When an electron is moving inside a solid material, the force between other atoms will affect its movement and it will not be described by Newton's law. So we introduce the concept of effective mass to describe the movement of electron in Newton's law. The effective mass can be negative or different due to circumstances. Generally, in the absence of an electric or magnetic field, the concept of effective mass does not apply. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_mass_(solid-state_physics) Cheers: Axil On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:39 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 > >
