Electron Fission

Scott_Marks writes: "A Science News story this week reports on some research by Humphrey J. Maris of Brown University predicting that in liquid helium electrons could be split in two. This seems not to be just your sorry-Dr.-Einstein probablistic one-thing-in-two-places effect, but an actual separation. (Does that distinction even make sense in the quantum world? Over my head.) Maris will give a talk on this later this month near me at N. C. State, so I'll be there. Makes me wonder what it would be like for a physics colloquium to get Slashdotted."

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Electrinos!

[Mad Hughagi]

This article aired on the AIP physics news update last month. You can check out their take on it here:

http://www.aip.org/enews/physnews/2000/split/pnu50 1-1.htm

It's quite an interesting concept, it will be cool to see what further experiments reveal.