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WHAT ARE LEPTONS?
Universe Today ^ | 1 Dec, 2016 | Matt Williams

Posted on 12/02/2016 7:50:14 PM PST by MtnClimber

During the 19th and 20th centuries, physicists began to probe deep into the nature of matter and energy. In so doing, they quickly realized that the rules which govern them become increasingly blurry the deeper one goes. Whereas the predominant theory used to be that all matter was made up of indivisible atoms, scientists began to realize that atoms are themselves composed of even smaller particles.

From these investigations, the Standard Model of Particle Physics was born. According to this model, all matter in the Universe is composed of two kinds of particles: hadrons – from which Large Hadron Collider (LHC) gets its name – and leptons. Where hadrons are composed of other elementary particles (quarks, anti-quarks, etc), leptons are elementary particles that exist on their own.

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: particlephysics
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To: MtnClimber

Nope. Those days be Hadrons. They’re too full of themselves to be leptons.


41 posted on 12/03/2016 12:06:19 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: BenLurkin

Confusing as all get out.

That’s what they are.


Many a boss has commented similarly.


42 posted on 12/03/2016 12:07:49 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lysie

;)


43 posted on 12/03/2016 12:08:35 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Fungi

Those are pretty.


44 posted on 12/03/2016 12:09:41 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: dr_lew

Never bothers me asking stupid questions. Don’t learn anything pretending you know something you dont :)

So I looked at the parts of a nerve cell that get damaged.

I obviously am not sure what an atom is and what it does in a nerve cell but I guess it’s there before and after the cell is damaged.

So studying atoms and smaller particles doesn’t do a hell of a lot for healthcare, i guess :)


45 posted on 12/03/2016 12:09:52 AM PST by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Paladin2

Did not.


46 posted on 12/03/2016 12:10:13 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: dp0622
So studying atoms and smaller particles doesn’t do a hell of a lot for healthcare, i guess :)

Well, of course it does, but none of this involves damaged atoms.

47 posted on 12/03/2016 12:27:53 AM PST by dr_lew (I)
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To: dr_lew

Ha. You did make me laugh.

When I read the whole article and really looked at the Standard Model, I sighed. I’ve been “good” for years with the purple part but that green part just slays me. How did I miss the whole early discussion about leptons. Dang.

Somehow, I must integrate. Integrate. INTEGRATE!!!


48 posted on 12/03/2016 4:36:44 AM PST by Bodega (we are developing less and less common sense...world wide)
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To: MtnClimber
WHAT ARE LEPTONS?

Resident Leprechauns of Aleppo?

49 posted on 12/03/2016 4:43:39 AM PST by varon (There's always room for one more on the hanging tree.....)
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To: MtnClimber

50 posted on 12/03/2016 4:46:01 AM PST by JediJones (We must deport all liberals until we can figure out what the hell is going on.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Whoville?


51 posted on 12/03/2016 7:27:50 AM PST by Ozark Tom
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To: lepton

Just one of thousands of beautiful mushrooms. Another reason to believe in the Creator. Romans 1:18: For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. (Had to throw that in.)


52 posted on 12/03/2016 4:57:14 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Fungi

I had a huge fungi fruiting body behind my shed one year. Cream and melonish and pink. Shaped more like a coral than a traditional mushroom. It was really beautiful.


53 posted on 12/03/2016 6:15:11 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

Post a picture. Maybe it is identifiable.


54 posted on 12/03/2016 6:24:11 PM PST by Fungi
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To: dp0622

Subatomic particles make up atoms, atoms make up molecules, molecules make up proteins, fats, sugars, etc all the things that make up cells & life. Scientific discipline-wise: particle physics is a foundation to nuclear physics is a foundation to atomic physics/chemistry (though line is blurred here!) to engineering & medicine. Better understanding of each foundation step means more breakthroughs at the next level.

That’s why it such a shame we never built the Superconducting Super Collider ceding all that to the Europeans was a great shame. The spin off in materials science, vacuum technology, RF engineering, controls, high speed computing the alone generations of scientists & engineers trained by this and having access to this technology is incalculable. The Europeans will never efficiently exploit this technology advantage, not like we could!


55 posted on 12/03/2016 6:45:48 PM PST by Reily
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