Electrons (extra footage uncut)

Professor Poliakoff talking about electrons unedited. The finished video for Sixty Symbols is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr0HiIed-8Q

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• electrons
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[nottinghamscience]

Main video on electrons can be seen over at our sixtysymbols channel....

The Professor was cool with us using his rare outtakes - even he makes a slip of the tongue from time to time!

[RavnoUK]

Dear Nottingham University

I would like to buy a M Poliakoff action figure. So pleeeeassseeee Make it :D

[mvszao]

i love martyn poliakoff

[AssemblerGuy]

Here's what "demystified" the particle/wave duality for me -- and I guess the simplistic, explanatory "image" that Brady asks the prof for:

Think of e.g. electrons as a little piece of squiggly line: Up close (as in close enough to study the atom's structure), you can see it's a squiggly line. From a greater distance (as when studying molecules and their internal bonds), the object seems like merely a tiny dot -- something you'd just think of, or describe, as some tiny little solid "nugget".

[akashashen]

Does Martyn stay behind the desk because his pants are on the other desk in the corner? Why are uncut videos showing the footage counter? When will you listen to RavnoUK and 67 other people and start marketing a Professor Poliakoff action figure? What will the hair feel like?

[basslinet]

@RavnoUK I'll 53rd that :P

[SpaceTrooper50]

When electron is converted to photon it has more physical energy to cut metal than being in a form of electron. Therefor photon has more mass and has stronger physical existence. That is not stupid that is what you called research, and the reason it's different from the text book. Electron has to be converted to photon to have a stronger phisical form when dealing with other elements, fourth dimension.

[Aviatorsmith]

@SpaceTrooper50 Your stupidity in unbound. If you have only a partial understanding of the subject, don't act like an idiot. Go google "rest mass of photons". Just because energy can be converted to mass and vice versa, it doesn't mean that they exhibit the same properties. Not only have you got your concepts wrong, you are blatantly arguing without any research whatsoever. I rest my case.

[SpaceTrooper50]

@Aviatorsmith You're the only Einstien that don't believe in E=Mc2, I rest my case.

[SpaceTrooper50]

@Aviatorsmith Photon is not subject to gravity therefor it is reasonable to say that photon has no rest mass. But it is not reasonable to say that photon is massless because all energy has mass E=MC2. I did my research in this area for over ten years, about visible and invisible particles that are not subject to gravity under Fourth Dimension. I'm able to calculate that photon is heavier than electron, meaning I figure-out how to 'create' energy.

[Aviatorsmith]

@SpaceTrooper50 About your second paragraph, I suggest you do your research. The reason why photons are able to seemingly "push" objects like in the example of the laser you gave, is due to it's momentum which is shown in the equation E=hf. It's a packet of energy. It does not contain mass. Classical physics ie F=ma does not apply here. The photon does not need mass to apply a force to another object because it is pure energy and when something absorbs it, all the energy gets transferred.

[Aviatorsmith]

@SpaceTrooper50 The fourth dimension has nothing to do with it. I have already explained what was wrong with your example. Let me try to explain. You do not measure the mass of the electron literally using the weighing scale. The mass of the electron is calculated through the amount of deflection it experiences when exposed to a magnetic field. The more massive the electron, the smaller the deflection. Thus the mass of the electron has been experimentally calculated.

[SpaceTrooper50]

@Aviatorsmith You have to think Fourth Dimensionally! I did give you a couple of example (evidence) why photon is heavier than electron, but you failed to comprehend it. You also did not explain how you able to measure the weight of electron that you cannot even see.

Good scientist accept the truth as fact to have progress. Think about the LASER as an example. Ok here's another one, @USPTO 29/358,016. Do your research on photon, your last question shows the lack of intelligence.