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Physicists Observe Electron Ejected from Atom for First Time
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base ^
| September 28, 2010
| Maria Callier
Posted on 10/12/2010 1:01:13 PM PDT by decimon
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To: EvilOverlord; Mr. K
RE: wave/particle dual nature
"The electron may appear to be a particle, or a wave, in free space, depending on its interactions with other matter, energy, and observers."
We're made of those little particles.. we're waves it seems to me. Maybe we're matter only in the eyes of observers.
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posted on
10/12/2010 1:54:10 PM PDT
by
WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
To: Oberon
.1178 of one ten thousandths of an inch. 1.178496 X 10^-5.
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posted on
10/12/2010 1:56:09 PM PDT
by
jimt
To: Red_Devil 232
The check it with a sundial.
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posted on
10/12/2010 2:07:37 PM PDT
by
loungitude
( The truth hurts.)
To: decimon
thats not fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it.
To: 3niner
Curious what the frequency of the laser... apparently 2 lasers were used... one to excite the atom and a second EUV laser to capture an image.
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posted on
10/12/2010 2:12:57 PM PDT
by
Rodamala
To: whd23
Post pics or it didn’t happen An atom with a pulsating positively charged hole in the valence shell? This is a family friendly website.
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posted on
10/12/2010 2:14:09 PM PDT
by
Reeses
(Respect and fear go hand in hand.)
To: east1234
Interesting, but why the hell is the Air Force spending money on this research? Dumb question. One word answer: Weapons.
More in depth: Freer electrons equals a net reduction in power loss in anything electronic. It will be cooler, faster, and more efficient. That applies to a bunch of things the AF holds dear from onboard avionics, missile systems and future energy weapons. This is exactly the kind of thing the government should be funding. Like the atom bomb the nation that develops a lead here will be in a much better position than the ones who don't.
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posted on
10/12/2010 2:19:07 PM PDT
by
Melas
To: decimon
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posted on
10/12/2010 2:22:33 PM PDT
by
Pagey
(B. Hussein Obama has no experience running anything, except his pedestrian mouth.)
To: decimon
Oh, so that’s where baby atoms come from.
To: utherdoul
Thank you Hubert Farnsworth. :)
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posted on
10/12/2010 2:34:26 PM PDT
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: Oberon
It is the transferred laser energy that excites the electron to leave it's valence orbit.
Figuring the speed of laser light (energy) at 3*10^8 m/sec * (the time being) 1*10^-15 = 3*10^-7m * 39/36 (converts meters to inches) = 3.25*10^-7 inches
That is the laser's wavelength, not necessarily the pulse length.
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posted on
10/12/2010 2:48:16 PM PDT
by
pfflier
To: decimon
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posted on
10/12/2010 2:48:22 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
10/12/2010 3:04:29 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
Didn’t that happen over Hiroshima? Just asking ....
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posted on
10/12/2010 3:15:27 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("Give Kids An Education, Take Them Out Of Government Schools" - and I'm still Molly Norris")
To: Reeses
An atom with a pulsating positively charged hole in the valence shell? This is a family friendly website.LOL! Touché
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posted on
10/12/2010 3:20:53 PM PDT
by
whd23
(Every time a link is de-blogged an angel gets its wings.)
To: whd23; Reeses
Did the atom have a cigarette afterward?
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posted on
10/12/2010 3:45:32 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
To: utherdoul
thats not fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it.hehehe... Farnsworth.
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posted on
10/12/2010 3:50:36 PM PDT
by
Libertarian4Bush
(if you voted for obama, I have no respect for you. you're either a loser or a sucker. sorry!)
To: decimon; AdmSmith; bvw; callisto; ckilmer; dandelion; ganeshpuri89; gobucks; KevinDavis; ...
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posted on
10/12/2010 4:48:19 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: EvilOverlord
My understanding, not being a professional physicist, is that the electron is confined to one of several energy levels when it is bound to the atom. Applying enough energy to free the electron (known as the 'work function'), allows the electron to have any energy level, and can move freely. Free space is essentially a continuum of an infinite number of very closely spaced energy levels that the electron can occupy.
An electron is a wave function when bound to the atom.
It has no single position, but appears as an 'electron cloud' around the atom.
The electron may appear to be a particle, or a wave, in free space, depending on its interactions with other matter, energy, and observers.
It's always a particle and a wave.
It's called wave-particle duality.<---"EXACTLY" ... What He Said!
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posted on
10/12/2010 5:01:12 PM PDT
by
plinyelder
("I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born." -- Ronald Reagan)
To: plinyelder
Ah, you agree with him. Now I ask you, what is the temporal reference frame of this freed electron?
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posted on
10/12/2010 5:13:42 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Some, believing they cannot be deceived, it's nye impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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