Discovery About Behavior Of Building Block Of Nature Could Lead To Computer Revolution






A team of physicists from the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham have shown that electrons in narrow wires can divide into two new particles called spinons and holons.



The electron is a fundamental building block of nature and is indivisible in isolation, yet a new experiment has shown that electrons, if crowded into narrow wires, are seen to split apart.



The electron is responsible for carrying electricity in wires and for making magnets. These two properties of magnetism and electric charge are carried by electrons which seem to have no size or shape and are impossible to break apart.



However, what is true about the properties of a single electron does not seem to be the case when electrons are brought together. Instead the like-charged electrons repel each other and need to modify the way they move to avoid getting too close to each other. In ordinary metals this does not usually make much difference to their behaviour. However, if the electrons are put in a very narrow wire the effects are exacerbated as they find it much harder to move past each other.



In 1981, physicist Duncan Haldane conjectured theoretically that under these circumstances and at the lowest temperatures the electrons would always modify the way they behaved so that their magnetism and their charge would separate into two new types of particle called spinons and holons.: ScienceDaily (July 31, 2009)

Stanley,

I am sure you know how to comment this.
I just explain for the others:

Spinons and Holons are not more pieces of electrons than foam are pieces of water molecules.
Spinons and Holons are not more pieces of electrons than sea waves are airbags from oxygen in water molecules.

No use, Anon!

Whenever the Quantum Folks publish something claiming to prove experimentally the theoretical predictions about the existence of some hypothetical particles, those fictional particles would be treated and taken as real by those hyper-imaginative folks forever regardless of anybody else's objections . This attitude of theirs differs very little from the well-known attitudes of the folks listed here: Nostradamus Time Machine