From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!rjs Newsgroups: net.physics Title: Millikan oil drops Article-I.D.: floyd.1212 Posted: Thu Feb 24 15:18:04 1983 Received: Fri Feb 25 05:30:33 1983 I just overheard a very brief conversation in which it was claimed that Millikan found a few oil drops which contained integer multiples of 1/3 the currently accepted charge on an electron, but which did not contain an integer multiple of the electron charge. It was also claimed that he suppressed these findings as experimental errors of some sort. Has anyone else heard of this? Has anyone heard of recent discoveries of free particles with 1/3 the electron charge? Would/Do these findings have any significant effect on particle theories or are they already predicted? Robert Snyder floyd!rjs