SCIENTISTS SPLITED ELECTRONS

Electrons of an atom revolve round the nuclues with a high speed in order counter balance the electrostatic force of attraction between protons and electrons.
Rutherford's atomic model can be compared with solar system. In this atom model electrons revolve round the nucleus in certain orbits like the planets revolve round the Sun. The particles which are present in the nucleus are called as nucleons. Protons, neutrons and several other subatomic particles excluding electrons are known as nucleons.

ELECTRON:

The Electron, which is fundamental building block of nature, is indivisible in isolation. They carry negative charge 1, relative mass is 1/1837 of hydrogen mass, mass is .00055 amu and symbol is 'e'. Electrons had no proven substructure till now.

Electrons in narrow wires can be divided into two new particles called spinons and holons, an experiment by a team of physicists from the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham has revealed. The experiment proved that electrons did not exhibit the same properties in groups that they showed when they were studied in proper isolation. They have to avoid getting too close to each other in narrow wires, as they all carry negative charge, the physicists said. When crammed together in very narrow wires, they need to modify trajectories to accomplish objective.

Physicist Duncan Haldane had in 1981 conjectured theoretically that the electrons would always modify the way they behaved so that their magnetism and their charge would separate into two new types of particle called spinons and holons. However, this is the first scientific proof of the phenomenon.

"We had to develop the technology to pass a current between a wire and a sheet only 30 atomic widths apart. The measurements have to be made at extremely low temperatures, about a tenth of a degree above absolute zero," said Cambridge university's Dr Chris Ford, who carried out the experiment with fellow physicist Yodchay Jompol. The experiment, which involved confining electrons tightly in a "quantum wire," could also be the basis for new theories of superconductivity.