Re: Weird electron behavior


Robert wrote:
> Last year some physicists managed to split sheets of graphite
> off by themselves, making a *** of carbon atoms only one carbon atom
> thick. And they were stable when created.
>
> Now physicists are finding that electrons move through them like they
> had no mass, or 1000 times faster than in normal metals.
>
> http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/9/11/6/1
>
> Robert

The "no rest mass" description is an exageration. The electrons move
at 1/300th the speed of light, while zero-rest-mass particles would
move AT the speed of light.

Mark

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