Posted on 09/03/2008 12:54:20 PM PDT by decimon
Bump for da' burbsssss.
Sounds like discovery of yet some more spin! LOL.
I believe we need an obligatory picture of the Ferengi bartender...
I really try to understand this partical physics stuff, but I have a hard time wrapping my brain around it.
Now, part of it is the nature of the subject, but I find a big part of it is the terminology used. I think some better descriptive terms for particals and their components might help make this study more accessible to laypeople.
Just MHO.
It's a fascinating place.
L
Not me. I just post this stuff for the weirdific factor. And because there could be a few here with a true interest.
From now on I dub the Omega-sub-b ------ TIM.
Lots of strangeness in San Francisco
That one? No... That one? Nope...
Soon they'll be scraping the bottom quarks.
Hmmm, Aldi grocery stores (cheap Aldi brand stuff) has its U.S. headquarters in Batavia, and now weird sub-atomic particles are found there. I wonder.
Is this Flubber?
Beat me to it. And here I thought I was so clever.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2073903/posts?page=6#6
And dude-ettes.
Cheers!
(Sorry I left you off the earlier list -- I've got Palin on the brain).
Cheers!
Yes, there are FReepers with a true interest, even if most of us will never contribute meaningfully to particle physics on either the experimental or theoretical sides.
Chrisser, some of the properties of particles are analogs for things in everyday life. For example, up/down and spin. Others of the properties are just whimsical names like strangeness. These descriptors serve to categorized the particles into natural groups.
Baryons and mesons are types of particles that are composed of these tiny indivisible (as far as we know) particles called quarks. Most baryons are composed of three quarks. Baryons and mesons together are called hadrons. The LHC, or Large Hadron Collider, is expected to reveal considerable information about these particles.
Combing through almost 100 trillion collision events produced by the Tevatron particle collider at Fermilab, the DZero collaboration found 18 incidents in which the particles emerging from a proton-antiproton collision revealed the distinctive signature of the Omega-sub-b. Once produced, the Omega-sub-b travels about a millimeter before it disintegrates into lighter particles. Its decay, mediated by the weak force, occurs in about a trillionth of a second.Yeah, sure, okay. ;')
thanks, bfl
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