----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Powell PhD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 6:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] [OT] frozen electrons!
> Leon Brooks wrote:
> >
> >
> > >> Graham Percival wrote:
> > >>> Millions of electrons died to bring me this message. Was it worth
it,
> > >>> Warren Doney?
> > > Electrons don't DIE or MOVE!
> >
> > They do die. Vacuum anomalies can result in an anomalous positron wiping
out an
> > ``innocent bystander'' normal electron, leaving the anomalous electron
to
> > replace it. Since there are so many electrons, it's quite likely that
millions
> > of them did indeed ``die'' in the forging, delivery and reception of
Warren's
> > message.
> >
> > They do move; whether as waves or as particles is almost as big an
argument as
> > it is for photons, but they do move. In mains (AC) power, they move
backwards
> > and forwards through the ``sea'' of metal ions (typically copper or
aluminium)
> > in your power cables, so you're continually using second-hand electrons
to run
> > your computer.
> >
> > If you can stop the little suckers from either moving or dying, you will
have
> > the unlimited attention of a very large number of physicists... (-:
> >
> > --
> > "The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm
> > in two jumps." -- William Lloyd George
>
> Again! electrons do not die they have the possiblity if given enough
> energy to move up to a higher energy band, thus whicn they cannot
> support themselves there they drop back releasing energy to the next
> atom, and raining its electron level. this moving and dieing is high
> school stufff man!
>
> mikey
It was a joke Mikey. Get a life.
Hoyt
