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 -------