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Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 10:47:25 MST

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    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/04/030403072949.htm

    <<RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- April 2, 2003 -- In a discovery that is likely to
    impact fields as diverse as atomic physics, chemistry and nanotechnology,
    researchers have identified a new physical phenomenon, electrostatic
    rotation, that, in the absence of friction, leads to spin. Because the
    electric force is one of the fundamental forces of nature, this leap forward
    in understanding may help reveal how the smallest building blocks in nature
    react to form solids, liquids and gases that constitute the material world
    around us.

    Scientists Anders Wistrom and Armik Khachatourian of University of
    California, Riverside first observed the electrostatic rotation in static
    experiments that consisted of three metal spheres suspended by thin metal
    wires, and published their observations in Applied Physics Letters. When a DC
    voltage was applied to the spheres they began to rotate until the stiffness
    of the suspending wires prevented further rotation. The observed
    electrostatic rotation was not expected and could not be explained by
    available theory. >>

        
        



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