REVOLUTIONARY or reckless? One of these terms will eventually be used to
describe the claim made by Humphrey Maris, a British physicist based in the US.
He contends that the electron, a fundamental particle, can be split in half
(see p 24).
His idea is even stranger than you might think because it’s not just the
electron’s integrity that’s at stake. Maris has calculated that the electron’s
“wave function” can be split. For eight decades, physicists have considered the
wave function as no more than a convenient mathematical tool for calculating the
behaviour of electrons and other players on…
