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

cheesey at mordred.midworld.co.uk cheesey at mordred.midworld.co.uk
Thu May 17 16:12:31 PDT 2007


I'm Rob Mitchelmore.  I've posted here on and off for years.  Just this mail client doesn't have my full name on it because I keep forgetting to edit my config file.

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 03:31:41PM -0700, Thomas Clayton wrote:
> Rob / cheesey,
> 
> I don't recognisze your name/ 'handle'. What is the rest of your name -
> OR, better yet, your usual 'handle'(screen name)?
> 
> TomC
> 
> The term "handle" goes back to the days of Citizens' Band (CB) radio
> and, after that, dial-in BBSes.
> 
> --- cheesey at mordred.midworld.co.uk wrote:
> 
> > 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.  Thank[]you very much. :-)
> > 
> > Rob
> 
> 
> 
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