Why the long-supported quantum electrodynamics theory might need some rethinking

Electronic Products ^ | 12/3/12 | Jeffrey Bausch

[null and void]

Therefore all science is wrong. </YEC>

[EEGator]

So eventually they will demonstrate that QED is QED.

[null and void]

Nicely played...

[skinkinthegrass]

Thanks, for the post.science ping..really missed this one.

[EEGator]

Thank you, I’ll be here all week...

[OldNavyVet]

Jonathan Sapirstein, a professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame

Reminds me of a physics professor that opened the semester leaning heavily on a door sill and asking students to estimate the force of his pressing action?

Is their anyone here that knows the answer?

[Steely Tom]

What the group discovered, via the NSIT’s Electron Beam Ion Trap, is that ions with a strongly positive charge can display electrons that behave in ways inconsistent with what the theory suggests should happen.

I'm guessing the author probably should have said "ions with a strongly positive charge can displace electrons in ways inconsistent..."

Anything that an "ion with a strongly positive charge" can "display" would be displayed with very few pixels indeed.

[EEGator]

This is a trick or joke question right?

[I want the USA back]

I’d hate for one of their favorite theories to be proven wrong cuz they would have to scrap that recent book about how the “universe pops in and out of existence.”

[tet68]

So eventually they will demonstrate that QED is QED.

But probably not PDQ.

[null and void]

Yes! That was another [sic] I was going to add, actually two of the three I missed, NSIT’s [sic], display [sic] and a second (NSIT) [sic]...

[EEGator]

Haha, no. It will take decades and lots and lots of Federal grants.

[null and void]

Is their anyone here that knows the answer?

Exactly equal to the force of the door sill pressing back?

[Flick Lives]

“If 20 of titanium’s 22 electrons are removed, it becomes a highly charged ion that looks in many ways like a helium atom that has been shrunk to a tenth its original size,” explains NIST physicist John Gillaspy, a member of the research team. “Ironically, in this unusual state, the effects of QED are magnified, so we can explore them in more detail.”

It sounds almost like they have effectively built a single-atom cyclotron.

[layman]

I will need some basic information before making my calculations .... first ... how fat was his ass ?

[Mycroft Holmes]

Reminds me of a physics professor that opened the semester leaning heavily on a door sill and asking students to estimate the force of his pressing action?

Force = Mass x Acceleration

The Acceleration involved is about 9.8m/S (1g) The mass involved is a bit more complicated requiring knowledge of the mass of the professor and the angle of the lean. It's a pretty cute vector problem that is solvable with some thought.

[sasquatch]

However, if no errors are found in the theory and the NIST experiment is correct,

Time to put a tape measure to the cables?

[null and void]

Good point. High (near relativistic) electron velocity=higher mass=shift in emitted wavelength.

It would be nice to know if the emitted light was red shifted or blue shifted...

[Boogieman]

Just leaning against the frame, the only force in play would be the force of gravity pulling him down, redirected laterally by him using the doorframe for support. So, I think the force would be his weight (mass times the acceleration due to gravity), times the sin of the angle at which he is leaning.

[GeronL]

lol.

Science is never wrong, it’s just evolving.

lol

do we have a “Settled Science” ping list?