[GEM Development] Are There 'Archives' of Our Correspondance?

[cheesey at mordred.midworld.co.uk]

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 02:33:59PM -0700, Thomas Clayton wrote:
> That reminds me of what Prof. Ehrenfest said to his students, Goudsmit
> and Uhlenbeck, when they came running in after their return from
> visiting Prof. Lorentz. G & U asked that E. NOT send their joint paper
> on electron spin to the publishers because L. had shown that IF their
> hypoth. were correct than the 'surface' of the electron would be going
> FASTER than the speed of light AND the magnetic moment would TWICE the
> usually accepted value. E. said
> 'I've sent it away weeks ago and it will appear next week. Well, you
> are both young and can afford a stupidity.'
> 
> BTW, The faster than light doesn't matter (there is NO surface!) and
> g=2 IS correct (up to Relativistic Quantum Field Theoretical
> corrections).

This is a very interesting email.  Thankyou very much. :-)

Rob