User talk:Bvcrist

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[edit] Welcome!

[edit] Confusion is the path to understanding

Thank you for sharing your understanding and your efforts! ...Bvcrist 17:03, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Electron

In your edit of the electron article, you claim that an electron radius has been measured at CERN. This is almost certainly false. Do you have a reference which supports this claim? -- Xerxes 22:38, 5 July 2006 (UTC)


Xerses

  • I left a note on your page about my two sources. One I can easily find is: Malcolm MacGregor formerly of LLNL or Berkeley as noted in his book called: The Enigmatic Electron. The other ref is from an on-line article I read which clearly identified CERN as the source and the size being 10(-18)m. Will try to find it and share the exact ref.

The reason I'm familiar with this detail is that my Berkeley friend (PhD) and I are busy preping a book on the electron for the past 4 years now.

I'm afraid my library does not carry this book. Can you provide a quote of some sort so I can figure out what you're trying to say? I think you may be attempting to describe the electron root-mean-square charge radius, which (due to the polarization of the vacuum) is nonzero. Calling this just the electron radius would be misleading. -- Xerxes 20:53, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
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