Recent content by Sagan369963

Are you sure about that? I read that in Feynman diagrams, time progresses from the bottom to the top or from the left to the right. And that, if the arrow is pointing in the opposite direction, it means that the particle could be thought of as going backwards in time. I could be wrong though...

So, it 'borrows' 80,000Mev from the vacuum, exists virtually for 3*10^-25 seconds then most of that 80,000Mev disappears back into the vacuum. Some of it is transformed into the mass of the electron and anti-neutrino, giving them their kinetic energy. Is that really what is going on in beta...

From what I understand, which is kind of limited, the neutron (939Mev) decays into a proton (938Mev) giving off a HUGELY massive particle called a W boson (80,000Mev). The W boson exists for 3*10^-25 seconds then gets transformed into an electron (.511Mev) and an electron anti-neutrino (.28ev)...

z x c = H x d is the formula I am using to try to convert redshift to megaparsecs, where H I'm taking to be 71km/s/Mpc and c as 299,792.46 km/s. When I plug in .1 for z I get 1.377 Billion Light years (422.2429 Mpc), which sounds right. But when I plug in 10 for z I get the huge distance of...