Recent content by Jorge Kluney

drats!

But humanino, There is a great error with your reasoning. I won't affect my mojo. But Jorgino Skluney's supermassive, non-spinning, smustache may affect his mojo.

Come on, let your hair down for a minute or two. But, I would have to implore... what exactly about supermassive, non-spinning smustaches do you feel lacks seriousness?

So let me get this right... my smustache will be spinnin' all goofy? But there is one big whole in your theory of "The Spinning Mustache", and it's simple...mustaches don't spin, caballero. So, the opposite spin of my thick mustachio will be zero.

So technically, if I grow a mustache there will be the sparticle partner of this mustache called a 'smustache' (or mustachio). And this smustache will be significantly more massive than my actual mustache? Will the massiveness of this smustache be expressed in the thickness of the mustache?

Let's just say that if you don't help sanphy, he'll go nuclear and physically smash you to particles.

Thanks for the response and the link.

Okay, I'm a bit more confused now. So is my understanding correct: We believe that dark matter exists because we can infer its existence via indirect means (like the Bullet Cluster). We know that it quite likely is stable, weakly interacting, neutrally charged, and very massive. We also...

Really? That's some cool stuff. So technically, if there were a way to keep a neutron stable, disallowing its decay... neutrons could then be a candidate to comprise some of the dark matter? As long as the particle doesn't interact with the electric and magnetic fields that permeate space it...

So, sparticles wouldn't make up all of the dark matter? Only the lightest sparticles (neutralino) are currently candidates for dark matter? So, sparticles in general interact more strongly with the Higgs field than particles that we are more familiar with. And this might account for the...

Could someone help explain how these are related? I kind of understand the Higgs particle/field. It is believed to be the reason why fundamental particles (fermions and bosons) have mass. So, then I read that one of the problems with the Higgs field is that if it is true things should be...

Thanks again! So, there was already free amounts of neutrons to be used in forming deuteron. Were those neutrons (neutrons free being joined with a proton in deuteron) unstable? Did they quickly breakdown to a proton-electron-antineutrino if they weren't held in a nucleus with a proton?

Thanks for that reply. It was very helpful. In regards to the deuterium being composed of n-p. How does one of those protons (hydrogen) become a neutron? Does it need to gain energy (sorry if this is the wrong descriptive term)? Does one of the existing protons have one of its 'u quarks'...

Hello, I was having a difficult time understanding some instances of nucleosynthesis. Two hydrogens (each with just 1 proton) come together to form deuterium (1 proton and 1 neutron)... but why does this happen as opposed to forming a di-proton (2 protons). I've been told that it has...

Thank you very much for your response! It was incredibly useful in helping me better understand the process.