Date: 30/10/2017 18:49:45
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1140357
Subject: Electron’s Roundness Might Explain Universe’s Imbalance

New test of electron’s roundness could help explain universe’s matter/antimatter imbalance

When it comes to measuring how round the electron is, physicists hate uncertainty. Much depends on the most precise measurement possible, including a potential answer to a major scientific puzzle: why the universe contains any matter at all.

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Date: 31/10/2017 09:46:05
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1140647
Subject: re: Electron’s Roundness Might Explain Universe’s Imbalance

Tau.Neutrino said:


New test of electron’s roundness could help explain universe’s matter/antimatter imbalance

When it comes to measuring how round the electron is, physicists hate uncertainty. Much depends on the most precise measurement possible, including a potential answer to a major scientific puzzle: why the universe contains any matter at all.

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> In a series of ever-more-sensitive experiments over the past 30 years, researchers have established that if the shape of the electron has any distortion at all, the bulge must be smaller than 1 thousand trillion trillionths of a millimeter (10 -27 mm).

ie. The electron is round. Quantum physics says that the electron is “pointlike”, so you don’t have to ask whether it’s round or not.

Or to put it another way, if the electron has an electric dipole moment then there would have to be a hell of a lot of rewriting of physics textbooks.

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