OTOH, this one always threw me. Did I start out with some wrong values? :-)
Fred
"Three people check into a hotel. They pay £30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is £25 and gives £5 to the bellboy to return to the people. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that £5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets £2 and gives £1 to each person. Now each person paid £10 and got back £1. So they paid £9 each, totalling £27. The bellboy has £2, totalling £29. Where is the missing £1?"
----- Original Message -----From: Frederick SparberSent: 3/10/2006 3:40:27 AMSubject: Re: UK's MAGPIE & Sandia,s Z Pinch, Electronium-(*e-) Annihilators?The 2 Billion K "Over Unity" x-rays that Sandia's machine recently generated correspond to 172 KeV. Annihilation of the elusive (*e-) or (e- e+ e-) Electronium or Ps- entity that could be in the electron cloud or in a neutron of the steel (Carbon & Iron) might occur under the Z Pinch conditions. The websites for the generator at Blackett Labs at Imperial College are unavailable this morning.For charge conservation one can assume that the regular electron bound in the particlereturns to it's initial state when the Positronium Pair portion (bound e- e+) annihilates.Starting out with three 510 KeV electrons and a positron giving up about 170 KeV or more photonseach as binding energy (mass defect) and ending up with a regular electron plus172 KeV photons when the (*e-) annihilates as well as arriving at the (*e-) mass poses a bit of a math puzzle.Fred
