[decimon]

Moment of four ping.

[PetroniusMaximus]

You know, they say Property is nine tenths of the Law.

[KingOfVagabonds]

You’ve got to pass the 2nd Chakra first, just ask Gore

[UCANSEE2]

Did somebody say FORE?

[dangerdoc]

monopole prospector ping.

[Berlin_Freeper]

You can make good money from helping research.

[UCANSEE2]

Every other day, scientists discover some new facet of the Universe that makes them say, “this will change our ‘understanding of the Universe completely”.

One of these days, they might actually be right.

[Durus]

In the case of electrons, the situation is much more complicated because electrons should not actually have any spatial dimension.

This is where a layman goes "huh"?

Physicist: Well the electron is really really small so it doesn't have spatial dimensions.

Layman: Wouldn't it just have really really small spatial dimensions?

Physicist: No...because it is really really tiny.

Layman: If it's a physical object isn't it required to have spatial dimensions even if they are really really tiny...cuz otherwise it isn't really a physical object right?

Physicist: Uhm...(after a few moments and said condescendingly) You would understand if you were a physicist.

[wally_bert]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhbqIJZ8wCM

[SunkenCiv]

But who wouldn't want to study the electric dipole moment of the electron for it's own sake. ;') Thanks decimon, a two-list ping.

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks decimon. Apparently the other three properties were already being taxed, but the gubmint wants more.

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[wendy1946]

Up to now, nobody has successfully proven the existence of this assumed tiny dipole moment.

I'd view Ralph Sansbury's experiment with electrostatic fields being generated by currents more or less as a proof of this, there's no other plausible explanation.

[muir_redwoods]

ping

[samtheman]

So what are the first 3 properties? Mass, angular moment and charge?

[AdmSmith]

If it is found that the electron has a permanent electric dipole moment (.i.e. larger than 10⁻⁴⁰ e·cm ) then the Standard Model has to be modified or replaced. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_electric_dipole_moment but a 90 % confidence level is not good enough

A technical powerpoint http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~journalc/public/talk/051129_Prasad.ppt