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If the electron wasn’t perfectly round, it would imply new hidden particles

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If the electron wasn’t perfectly round, it would imply new hidden particles

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Post by pyman_in » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 9:19 PM UTC

If the electron wasn’t perfectly round, it would imply new hidden particles
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Post by retrocryptid » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 10:09 PM UTC

Or that it's moving at relativistic speeds.

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Post by retrocryptid » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 10:09 PM UTC

Or that there's some other charge carrier nearby.

Re: If the electron wasn’t perfectly round, it would imply new hidden particles

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Post by jfengel » Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 10:29 PM UTC

retrocryptid wrote: post #2

Or that it's moving at relativistic speeds.

The experiment described in the article uses ultracold atoms (tiny fractions of a Kelvin), so it's not relativistic.

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