From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 10:47:25 MST
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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