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View SchemaA New Look at the Sub-electron Controversy Of Milikan & Ehrenhaft
| Authors | T. Datta, Ming Yin, Zhihua Cai, M. Bleiweiss |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0507170 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0507170 |
Abstract
The measurements of the electronic charge e, by Ehrenhaft and Millikan in the early nineteen hundreds generated a bitter controversy between the orthodox and the atomic points of views. Guided by the Pauli-Fermi neutrino model for beta-decay in this paper we speculate that the introduction of a small hypothetical force is adequate to account for most of the contentious differences between the observations of Millikan and Ehrenhaft.
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