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In Reply to: Re: What kind of tube collections.... posted by Doc B. on April 3, 2006 at 15:53:52:
Experimental Comparison of the Gravitational Force on Freely Falling Electrons and Metallic Electrons
F. C. Witteborn and W. M. FairbankA free-fall technique has been used to measure the net vertical component of force on electrons in a vacuum enclosed by a copper tube. This force was shown to be less than 0.09mg, where m is the inertial mass of the electron and g is 980 cm/sec2. This supports the contention that gravity induces an electric field outside a metal surface, of magnitude and direction such that the gravitational force on electrons is cancelled.
Dear Doc B.
If you read the abstract of your own reference carefully, you will find that electrons falling of cathodes is in fact NOT the case, as above experiments show. However reexamining the experiments, I have come to doubt the far-fetched claim of gravity inducing an electric field. I have just written up a 8 page NSF proposal asking for $1 000 000 in funds to prove their claim wrong and show that in fact only a complete quantum mechanical treatment of the electrons in addition to a quantized treatment of the electric field will faithfully reproduce their results.
This newly developed and more accurate description will not only enhance our fundamental understanding of nature, but also result in improved vacuum tube technology that will be able to replace existing solid-state devices in multiple applications such as audio and hifi, as well as impact computer processor development. In fact, vacuum tube based CPUs should be able to replace current computation technology, allowing the factoring of numbers and data base searching in sub-polynomial time, thus rendering current efforts in quantum computation and quantum information useless.
Sincerely,
Restock, Ph. D.
Die gefährlichste Weltanschauung ist die Weltanschauung derjenigen, die die Welt nicht angeschaut haben.
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859)
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Follow Ups
- Please check your reference again! - restock 12:18:02 04/04/06 (1)
- Sorry Doc! - restock 12:43:17 04/04/06 (0)
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