How can you weigh an electron?

[CARN0T]

This is a place for having fun, right?

Gravitation is quite an enigmatic force.  There are lots of theories about it.  A few seem to make some sense.  If we had more information, that might help to clarify the situation.  What we know for sure (I think) is this--

  F  =  Gm₁m₂/R²  (for spheres and point particles)

G seems to be the same constant as close as we can tell for any material that we have tried.  But, I'm fairly certain that the formula and the value of G have never been tested for particles smaller than a whole atom.  Well, it seems to have been checked for photons, but the accuracy is fairly low I believe.  So, why not an experiment to measure the gravitational force on an elementary particle?  An electron, for instance?

Let's think about a simple experiment.  Look at a straight metal rod held vertically in the earth's gravitational field.  (Inside a shielded room, say, to remove other fields besides gravity.)  There should be slightly more electrons in the bottom of the rod than in the top-- they "fall to the bottom."

Okay, now it's your turn.  Can you figure out how to measure that slight inequality?  Or, maybe you have another approach to suggest?

Ernie Rogers

[Alien509]

If you weighed an electron it's weight would deviate from incoming energy and would never be exact. If we look at pie (the symbol) for 3.154159... the electron and it's (corresponding elements) represent every permutation of possibilities in the X,Y,Z planes and in (every derivative) there of.

[nueview]

i read somewhere that they calculated it by spinning a disc and allowed current to leave the disc through centrifical force.
yet another was calculated by current flow at a voltage and measuring the voltage spike allowing for mass speed so really i don't know either it is a good question and would like to know i'm sure it has been done many times to be varified put perhaps in many different ways .

[madddann]

Is there really such a thing - electron? Well i call it just energy flow and there is a positive and a negative energy flow. Can you show me an electron? I don't think so, 'cause form is created by an equilibrium of both + and - energy flow (forces). To weight an electron? Weight is the flow of energy between two objects in disequilibrium.
Guys, let go of the textbooks and just use your own head. Give it a try, what do you have to loose? It's what you will slowly gain that will amaze you.

Peace
Dann

[CARN0T]

Human civilization is built on man's ability to transfer knowledge from one generation to the next.  (I.e., textbooks)

Ernie Rogers

Is there really such a thing - electron? Well i call it just energy flow and there is a positive and a negative energy flow. Can you show me an electron? I don't think so, 'cause form is created by an equilibrium of both + and - energy flow (forces). To weight an electron? Weight is the flow of energy between two objects in disequilibrium.
Guys, let go of the textbooks and just use your own head. Give it a try, what do you have to loose? It's what you will slowly gain that will amaze you.

Peace
Dann