[null and void]

Therefore all science is wrong. </YEC>

[EEGator]

So eventually they will demonstrate that QED is QED.

[skinkinthegrass]

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

[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.

[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.”

[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.

[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?

[GeronL]

lol.

Science is never wrong, it’s just evolving.

lol

do we have a “Settled Science” ping list?

[expat2]

The ion is actually very different from a helium atom. In the latter case, the atom is charge-neutral and all coulomb fields fall off much faster than r^-2. The ion, meanwhile, has a 20e positive charge which can induce charges in the surroundng walls of the equipment and thence modify the electron orbits.

It is possible that they have tried to compensate for this, but the compensation calculation could be a very difficult one to do accurately.

[Kevmo]

However, if no errors are found in the theory and the NIST experiment is correct, some physics outside of QED must be present.”
***Physicists have been resisting this notion for 23 years, trying their best to deny the data coming from other Condensed Matter Nuclear Science Experiments known as Cold Fusion.