Stephen A. Lawrence > > > Kyle R. Mcallister wrote: > > > Probably most of them I would imagine since in the course of one > > > short e-mail you managed to misspell Vortex TWICE! > > > > > > "lay population of Votex" "I hope others in and of votrtex" > > > > I think it is perhaps better to misspell than to populate Vortex-L > > with any number of oddball theories and/or speculated subatomic > > particles of which there is not the least bit of experimental > > evidence for their existence. > > I believe the charter for Vortex includes just such things as being "on > topic". > > > > > > > > 3. "Electronium"...I understand that positronium is supposed to be a > > bound state of a positron and an electron which is very unstable. > > What then is electronium? Two electrons and a positron, yielding a > > "thing" with mass of 3e(or p) and a net charge of -1? Evidence for > > this thing please? I seem to recall an experiment involving playing > > with the vertical drive coils of a small TV, and looking for a less > > deflected lineon the phosphor screen which would correspond to > > something with an electron's charge but higher mass. I recall also > > that nothing was found. If positrons are in it, the only thing I can > > think of is maybe doping the cathode with something that emits > > positrons is relatively high quantities. But who knows. > > > Looks like my postulated stable bound Electron-Positron-Electron, Negative Particle (mass ~ 2.0 to 2.7 elecderived from the Positronium Anion (Ps-) being pursued by the "establishment" is on trial.
http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/ato/psminus/ "Introduction" "The study of simple systems has been of particular interest since the very first days of physics. Simple systems, consisting of just a few particles do not show the puzzling variety of phenomena known from solid state physics, for example. But they offer invaluable insights into the the properties of particles and fundamental forces. To gain a first understanding of atomic physics it is a much more promising approach to study hydrogen instead of complex molecules, for instance. The object of our studies is one of these simple systems: the Positronium negative ion. This exotic entity is a bound state of a positron and two electrons. It is similar to the negative ion of hydrogen (H-). In fact, it is the most simple three body problem imaginable. Its constituents are pointlike particles (at least to the best of our knowledge) and there are no pertubations due to strong interactions to be considered. There has been quite a lot of theoretical activity around Ps- but there is not much known experimentally. Only one experiment can be found in the literature: A.P. Mills observed the Positronium negative ion experimentally and made a first lifetime measurement. With an error of about 4% it is not sufficiently precise to allow for a test a QED effects. A new measurement of the lifetime with improved precision is the first objective of this project. We have a 22Na source (on the left) emitting positrons at 0.55 MeV. A tungsten foil moderates the positrons to thermic velocities (about 30 eV). The slow positrons enter the field of an S-shaped solenoid which leads them into the experiment chamber (on the right). The ß+ decay of 22Na leads to a excited 22Ne nucleus, which decays further by ? emission at 1.27 MeV. To remove these photons from the background the solenoid shifts the positron beam out of the gamma beam. In the experimental chamber the positrons pass through a grounded copper grid and get accellerated onto a thin carbon foil. This foil is just a few atomic layers thick. In the Carbon foil most of the positrons capture one electron and form the electrically neutral Positronium. Very rarely a positron captures two electrons and forms the negative charged Ps-. A second grid after the carbon foil is on high voltage (about 4kV) and accellerates the Ps- ions. This Doppler-shifts the decay-?s to higher energies in forward direction, while the energy of the ?s from the neutral Positronium remains at 511 keV. To measure the spectra a Germanium detector at the temperature of liquid nitrogen detects the ? radiation from the decays of the positronium and positronium ion." http://www.newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=1186 (October 31, 2005) "RIVERSIDE, Calif. What happens when two atoms, each made up of an electron and its antimatter counterpart, called the positron, collide with each other? UC Riverside physicists are able to see for the first time in the laboratory that these atoms, which are called positronium atoms and are unstable by nature, become even more unstable after the collision. The positronium atoms are seen to destroy one another, turning into gamma radiation, a powerful type of electromagnetic radiation. Our research also gives the first hint of the presence of double positronium molecules, each of which is made up of two electrons and two positrons, said Allen Mills, professor of physics and leader of the research project. This kind of matter-antimatter pairing has never been formed or studied in the laboratory until now, and paves the way for a new field of study on its properties. " I'm not into rewriting accepted physics, but I'm not above looking for a particle that most likely exists (since time zero) and has been overlooked in the shuffle. IOW, for every postron-electron pair produced, obviously near many electrons there could be a major fraction that form the stable Triad "Electronium". Thus Electron-Positron Annihilation Radiation could mask the existence of the bound Triad that except for it's mass, radius and nuclear magnetic moment looks like any other electron. It cannot be detected by electrotatic CRTs but can be detected using a magnetic mass spectrometer type device. Ther modified scope experiment was a rough cut mass attempt, with the thought that one might shake out a few if they come off the emitter in CRT. The researchers in the above links and others have been made aware of this possibility, but, you or me won't be hearing from them while they are feverishly shooting for a free trip to Stockholm. Fred > > > > > Regards, --Kyle > >
