Science Journals

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident: Arthur Schopenhauer -- In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual: Galileo Galilei -- Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it: Albert Einstein -- When you have eliminated the impossible, what ever remains, however improbable must be the truth: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? Niels Bohr -- Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is that it will explain all phenomena: Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Since the mathematicians invaded Relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore: Albert Einstein -- I would say that the aether is a medium invented by man for the purpose of propagating his misconceptions from one place to another: W.F.G. Swann: -- Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone: Albert Einstein -- Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little: Bertrand Russell -- If I could explain it to the average person, I would not have been worth the Nobel Prize: R. P. Feynman -- I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use: Galileo Galilei -- How dare we speak of the laws of chance? Is not chance the antithesis of all law?: Bertrand Russell -- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I´m not sure about the former: Albert Einstein -- The glory of mathematics is that you don't have to say what you are talking about: Richard Feynman -- Anything is possible if you don´t know what you are talking about: Author Unknown -- In life, everything is relative - except Einstein´s theory: Leonid S. Sukhorukov -- Don´\'t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you´ll have to ram them down people´s throats: Howard Aiken --A day will come undoubtedly when the ether will be discarded as useless: H. Poincaré -- First they tell you you´re wrong and they can prove it; then they tell you you´re right but it isn´t important; then they tell you it´s important but they knew it all along: Charles Kettering -- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world: Aristotle -- The opposite of a true statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth: Niels Bohr -- A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it: Max Planck -- Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions: Eric Temple Bell -- Half this game is ninety percent mental: Yogi Berra

On the Charge-to-Mass Ratio: A Brief Analysis of The Cathode-Ray Experiments

Author:

Faraj, A. A.

Category:

Research Papers

Sub-Category:

Mechanics / Electrodynamics

Language:

English

Date Published:

October 10, 2025

File:

/Research Papers-Mechanics / Electrodynamics/Download/6228

Downloads:

2887

Keywords:

Charge-to-mass ratio; kinetic energy; momentum; rest mass; relativistic mass; charged particles; magnetic deflection; Lorentz force law; velocity transformation; magnetic field; electric field; mass-energy equivalence; cathode rays.

Abstract:

In this investigation, experiments, by J. J Thomson, on cathode rays, are briefly reviewed. And the treatment of the charge-to-mass ratio and the relation between mass and energy generally are analyzed in detail, within the theoretical framework of classical physics and relativistic physics, respectively. And accordingly, it's concluded that precise procedures and rigorous mathematical formulas for transforming velocity values from classical physics to relativistic physics, and vice versa, undermine and ultimately render the available experimental evidence for increasing mass with increasing velocity, in the final analysis, entirely insufficient and inconclusive.

Comments

Steve Olah(Laguna Woods, United States):

My question on charges / mass:
Particle Symbol Charge Mass Mass per Unit Charge
Electron e- e- 511 keV 511 keV
Positron e+ e+ 511 keV 511 keV
Up quark u (2/3)e+ ~3000 keV 4500 keV
Up antiquark /u (2/3)e- ~3000 keV 4500 keV
Down quark d (1/3)e- 6000 keV 18000 keV
Down antiquark /d (1/3)e+ ~6000 keV 18000 keV
Table 1, Charge and Mass from the Standard Model
The charge-to-mass ratios of various subatomic particles are very dissimilar. Charge and mass numbers are listed in Table 1. If we could cut an electron into three pieces with a very sharp knife, we could use two of the pieces for an up-antiquark and use one piece for a down-quark. The newly created up-antiquark and down-quark wouldn’t have nearly enough mass to be a real up antiquark and down quark. That may mean that the electric charge is not an inherent property of the matter of the electron or the quark. Maybe the charge is somehow painted on or mixed in like colored plaster or confined inside like a cherry seed? Would any of these solutions work? Could we fabricate these elementary charged particles in mass to fill up the Galaxies? Or we could just toss the problem over the wall to the production department.

Posted: October 18, 2025 @ 6:44:35 pm

0 Dislikes