{"id":32,"date":"2008-01-05T10:38:57","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T15:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/05\/electron-g-factor\/"},"modified":"2008-02-22T08:28:25","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T13:28:25","slug":"electron-g-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/05\/electron-g-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"Electron g factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current electron spin g factor given by NIST is -2.002 319 304 3622 *. \u00a0Since the earth is in orbit around the sun, and receives its replacement gravitational energy from the sun, this may be why the g factor is greater than 2 in magnitude.\u00a0 It makes me wonder if the g factor at Jupiter is closer to -2, and greater in magnitude than the Earth g factor at Venus because it is closer to the sun.<br \/>\nThe magnetic moment of the electron is tied to this g factor:<br \/>\n\u03bc<sub>S<\/sub> = g<sub>e<\/sub>\u03bc<sub>B<\/sub>(<strong>S<\/strong>\/\u045b),<br \/>\nwhere \u03bc<sub>S<\/sub> is the magnetic moment of the electron, with units of Amp\u2013meter<sup>2<\/sup>, and \u03bc<sub>B<\/sub> represents the Bohr magneton. \u00a0The spin angular momentum of the electron, <strong>S<\/strong>, is \u045b\/2.<br \/>\nIt may be that when l g l, for electrons in a macroscopic mass, drops below 2, atoms start to collapse.\u00a0 If so, it is certainly possible that electrons near the center of our galaxy have l g l < 2, with atoms collapsing at a slow rate.\n<span \/>* <a href=\"http:\/\/physics.nist.gov\/cgi-bin\/cuu\/Value?gem|search_for=g+factor\"><font color=\"#800080\">http:\/\/physics.nist.gov\/cgi-bin\/cuu\/Value?gem|search_for=g+factor<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current electron spin g factor given by NIST is -2.002 319 304 3622 *. \u00a0Since the earth is in orbit around the sun, and receives its replacement gravitational energy from the sun, this may be why the g factor is greater than 2 in magnitude.\u00a0 It makes me wonder if the g factor at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-mechanics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}