Hi Skeptic, Not only is the conversion of a neutron to a proton, its daughter, accepted universally but the process is extremely spontaneous evidenced by the accompanying expulsion of a highly energetic electron with 0.783 MeV of energy (and an anti-neutrino that must be emitted in order to...
Hi, Sniffer,
It is true that the pair of 3p electrons that are spinning in the same direction are not exactly HUP since their axes are perpendicular to each other because of the vector cross product, i.e., one is along the x-axis and the other is along the y-axis.
It is also a fact that there...
When nature creates a normal neutron somewhere near the axis of rotation of the Milky Way it throws in what behaves like a singlet positronium that is the seed to the conversion of the neutron to a proton - a spinning electron is ejected with much energy leaving the charge only of the remnant...
Perception-wise, pair-production is an energy dependent extension of the photo-electric phenomenon; As the photon energy approaches 1 MeV the probability for emission of a single electron decreases toward zero. At about a photon energy of 1.022 MeV the probability for pair-production inreases...
Usually when it is desired that an adjective be inserted between two words in context, the following noun moves along without changing; however, on some occasions the noun does not move along but its letters are replaced by those being inserted. It reminds me of the Pacman gobble-up of early...
Hi Daniel and juvy (and I don't mean you Daniel),
The length of a QM Sodium D yellow photon is 5,890 Angstroms(10^-10 meters) and there are literally many many different spectral photons and not one is a point particle. Oh yes' forgive me! - photons were never discovered they were just measured...
Don't forget that, when in an A-bomb, polonium and Beryllium are fused by shock when fuel density is max, and it furnishes 6 or so neutrons in the 5 microsecond window of super-criticalllity. Once the fission comences each fission produces two or three free neutrons that are available to cause...
Hi madness,
Only the length of a photon has been known since the rainbow was analyzed a couple of centuries ago. Then when the velocity of light was discovered a century ago someone divided the distance traveled by a photon in one second by the length of the photon and called it "frequency"...
The net charge of a free neutron is = ZERO.
That of the products of the reaction are a neg. 1eV of the electron and a plus 1 eV of the proton, so that the net charge of the resultants is also = ZERO. Therefore, the charge is, in fact, conserved. Perhaps it is the GUT and the SUSY that have...
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Hi Kris,
IMO - (Its My Opinion): that James C Maxwell and his Classical collegues discovered the Alternating Electric field several decades before the advent of quantum physics. Obviously, the question you ask was ask by Einstein and has not...
Gentlemen,
IMO, the quantum field is intrinsically broadcast by electrostatic radiation from within the nucleus of all atoms including the hydrogen atom whose radiant electrostatic field is manifested in the Lyman-Balmer etc series. With the Helium nucleus, the 1s orbit begins and is different...
NOTHING is inside eilther an electron or a positron except a unitary mass surrounded by a plus-1 charged- or minus-1 charged- "halo".
Please identify just what was created - was it a proton or a neutron - those are the only stable particles that nature creates and that happens at the heart of...
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Isn't it so that classical mechanics tells us that in the situation of a single planet orbiting around a massive body (2-body problem) that the centers of both bodies circle in the same direction about an axis somewhere between those centers (and perhaps very...