Yes, but they don’t reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.
Only The Doctor can reverse the polarity of something with no polarity.
I knew you was good people Squid
So… Just as an FYI and to be that dickhole:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_electric_dipole_moment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleon_magnetic_moment
https://inspirehep.net/literature/650244
A nonzero electric dipole moment can only exist if the centers of the negative and positive charge distribution inside the particle do not coincide. So far, no neutron EDM has been found. The current best measured limit for dn is (0.0±1.1)×10−26 e⋅cm.[1]
I’m going to pretend I understand that quote and move on.
We think the way the 3 quarks entangle to make a neutron could be asymmetric, such that it’s not a perfect, canceled out neutral blob.
Up quarks have +2/3 of a charge, down quarks have - 1/3.
Depending on how they all exist in the nucleus (quarks can’t be free, they basically have to be bound to each other, it’s why the strong force is so strong), they could overlap perfectly, or they could be next to each other like in a triangle, and we could notice that a neutron actually has a polarity where one side is slightly (impossibly slightly) more positive/negative than the other.
Then we have polarized neutrons, and your whole life is a lie.
But we’ve looked, and basically there’s no sign as far as we can tell, which is unfortunate, it means quarks are truly lost in the ‘quark-gluon soup’ of a hadron.
Trip’s the only one with cojones though. He reversed the polarity manually.
“It’s not working.”
“…We’re
bothall reversing the polarity.”“Yes, I know that.”
“There’s
twofour of us. I’m reversing it, you’re reversing it back again. We’re confusing the polarity!”Series pitch: t’lyn (in her absolute unhinged way) figures out how to make the shield polarity orthogonal to previous states, rendering them completely impervious to known powers, who, threatened by this, hatch a plot to infiltrate the federation and steal the technology by becoming member states. The federation’s rootbeer-like insidiousness eventually makes them give up their plot, but they still get the tech anyway because cooperation
Mostly I want to hear starfleet engineers start saying that they’re orthogonalizing the polarity, because I find that I hilariously ridiculous concept.
You hear that? You hear that sound? jon pertwee’s coming on his hovercraft and he is pissed
Damn you, now I have to start a pertwee rewatch!
