BILLW@SRI-AI.ARPA (11/01/83)
From: William "Chops" Westfield <BILLW@SRI-AI.ARPA>
Excerpt from a newswire article:
Metals conduct electricity because they unleash and
transfer their electrons - tiny subatomic particles that
carry what had long been considered an indivisible unit of
nature, the negative electric charge. But physicists believe
that conductivity in plastics may well be evidence of a
fractional charge. Dr. Robert Schrieffer, a Nobel laureate
at the University of California at Santa Barbara, has
described the work on conductive plastics as ''one of the
hottest areas in modern physics.''
Is this true (if so, how so?), or are the reporters confused as
usual.
BillW
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