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- From: sichase@csa3.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Spin-2 ===> Attractive Force ??
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 13:08 PST
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- In article <92350.133819CCB104@psuvm.psu.edu> , CCB104@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
- >Why are spin-2 "exchange particles" supposed to imply attractive---rather
- >than EITHER attractive or repulsive, as with electromagnetism---forces? In
- >other words, why can't spin-2 "exchange particles" represent repulsive
- >forces?
-
- I don't have a simple answer for you. But I can tell you that the
- theorem is more general - even-spin exchange bosons are only attractive,
- while odd-spin exchange bosons can mediate attractive forces as well.
- Another example is the residual strong interaction - the spin-0 pion
- mediates an attractive component, but a spin-1 particle (such as the rho)
- is required to get the repulsive hard core.
-
- I'm not sure I've ever seen a simple proof of this theorem. I have to
- dig through some of my old notes to see what I can come up with. However,
- I will need some time, since I still have more than 500 old sci.physics
- postings to wade through.
-
- -Scott
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- Scott I. Chase "It is not a simple life to be a single cell,
- SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV although I have no right to say so, having
- been a single cell so long ago myself that I
- have no memory at all of that stage of my
- life." - Lewis Thomas
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