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  1. One Electron, Threaded Through Time

    In the spring of 1940 the telephone rang in the graduate residence at Princeton, and Richard Feynman, then a doctoral student, picked it up to hear the voice of his advisor, John Archibald Wheeler. Wheeler skipped the greeting. He had solved a mystery no one else had thought to name, he said, and he knew why every electron in the universe carries exactly the same mass and exactly the same charge. The answer was that they are all the same electron. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/07/01/one-

  2. Watch the second episode of the “close-up“ series, where our student Nina visits the research neutron source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II), to learn more about the research with #neutrons and #positrons: go.tum.de/139820

    #batteries #aerospace #cancertreatment

    🎥@Prolehre

  3. Cool. Positronium 'atoms' are made up of an electron and a positron.

    "Researchers are [...] actively seeking tricks to make sources of positronium atoms that live longer. In a paper published today in the journal Physical Review A, the AEgIS collaboration at CERN describes a new way of making long-lived positronium."

    home.cern/news/news/physics/ae

    #Physics #Particles #Positronium #Electrons #Positrons

    @johncarlosbaez @gregeganSF

  4. Just updated on #StratoCat important events and dates of #scientific ballooning history that occurred in #January

    - First balloon flight from England to France over the English Channel
    - First Air Voyage in America by Jean Pierre #Blanchard
    - Start of the #GENETRIX spy balloon launches towards the USSR
    - First evidence of #Positrons in primary Cosmic Rays
    - #ECHO II balloon-satellite launch
    - First flight of a big #stratospheric #balloon in #Antarctica

    ...and much more

    stratocat.com.ar/otd/indexe.ht