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