Electric Fields May Bedevil Falling‐Electron Experiment
JUL 01, 1968
DOI: 10.1063/1.3035060
In an evacuated field‐free space pennies, feathers and electrons should all fall with the same acceleration according to all the standard theories of gravitation. At the Washington meeting of the American Physical Society Fred C. Witteborn reported on an experiment he and William M. Fairbank have been doing at Stanford. It seems to confirm this expectation for individual electrons although not everyone is convinced of its results.
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