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A doubt on the fundamental unit of charge
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[QUOTE="Rishabh Narula, post: 6293439, member: 584304"] "a charge smaller than e has not been found. if one determines the amount of charge on any charged body like a charged sphere or charged drop) or any charged particle (like positron, a-particle) or any ion, then its charge is always found to be an integral multiple of e, i.e., e,3e; 4e,... No Charge will be fractional multiple of e like 0.7e or 2.5e." the book(notes actually) also gave this side note- "The existence of charged particles called,quarks whose electric charges come in multiples of e/3, would not alter the fact that charge is quantized- it would merely reduce the size of the basic unit from e to e/3" my question is wouldn't that still imply then that a charge smaller than e does exist since charge of quarks comes in multiples of e/3. it would make sense if you add something more like an isolated quark doesn't exist like they always come in triplets or of that sort such that the sum of charges always adds up to e anyways.am i getting it right.do correct if wrong. [/QUOTE]
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