Unusual atom helps in search for Universe\'s building blocks...

[Jan Panteltje]

Unusual atom helps in search for Universe\'s building blocks
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230224135051.htm

so muon, ceasium, no more CERN tunnels needed?
Like I said many times before:
if you cannot do it with those small particles on the table top
then you cannot do it with a machine the size of the universe.

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 5:48:39 PM UTC+11, Jan Panteltje wrote:

Unusual atom helps in search for Universe\'s building blocks
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230224135051.htm

so muon, caesium, no more CERN tunnels needed?

Wrong. It\'s a different way of looking at a different problem. The approaches aren\'t mutually exclusive.

Creating a lot of muons does need a specialised accelerator (and apparently tanks of liquid hydrogen which wouldn\'t fit on a table top).

https://theconversation.com/how-a-muon-accelerator-could-unravel-some-of-the-universes-greatest-mysteries-131415

Like I said many times before:
if you cannot do it with those small particles on the table top
then you cannot do it with a machine the size of the universe.

You can say what you like - and frequently do - but since you don\'t know what you are talking about, there\'s no way anybody is going to take you seriously.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Jan Panteltje]

On a sunny day (Sun, 26 Feb 2023 23:44:24 -0800 (PST)) it happened Anthony
William Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote in
<509a2666-fff1-4c88-84e4-a4533285ab8cn@googlegroups.com>:

On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 5:48:39=E2=80=AFPM UTC+11, Jan Panteltje wrote:

Unusual atom helps in search for Universe\'s building blocks
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230224135051.htm

so muon, caesium, no more CERN tunnels needed?

CERN and ITER are just job creation programs of Einstein parrots.
It keeps some industries running and gives polly-ticksians an argument they do something for science;
Nothing will ever come of those programs.

Of course they could accidently create a black hole and you would be sucked up.

Will the universe be worse of without it?
I dunno .. must be zillions uttering stuff like you do.

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 8:04:47 PM UTC+11, Jan Panteltje wrote:

On a sunny day (Sun, 26 Feb 2023 23:44:24 -0800 (PST)) it happened Anthony
William Sloman <bill....@ieee.org> wrote in
509a2666-fff1-4c88...@googlegroups.com>:
On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 5:48:39=E2=80=AFPM UTC+11, Jan Panteltje wrote:

Unusual atom helps in search for Universe\'s building blocks
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230224135051.htm

so muon, caesium, no more CERN tunnels needed?

CERN and ITER are just job creation programs of Einstein parrots.

Or so you think, if you actually think.

It keeps some industries running and gives politicians an argument they do something for science;

Nothing will ever come of those programs.

It found the Higgs boson.

> Of course they could accidentallly create a black hole and you would be sucked up.

And pigs might fly.

Will the universe be worse of without it?
I dunno .. must be zillions uttering stuff like you do.

You really don\'t know. There are only 8 billion people around, so your \"zillions\" is as stupid as the rest of your output.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Fred Bloggs]

On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 1:48:39 AM UTC-5, Jan Panteltje wrote:

Unusual atom helps in search for Universe\'s building blocks
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230224135051.htm

so muon, ceasium, no more CERN tunnels needed?
Like I said many times before:
if you cannot do it with those small particles on the table top
then you cannot do it with a machine the size of the universe.

Research into muons has been ongoing since the 1950s. Your cite says absolutely nothing new. They only published it as a popular science article because of damaged medical cesium shipment in Australia, it is NOT a research report.

Fast Facts:

Approximately one muon hits every square centimeter of the Earth every minute at sea level. This rate of natural background radiation increases at higher elevations.

Ultrasensitive detectors, including some neutrino and dark matter experiments, are placed deep underground to minimize the effect of atmospheric muons..

Muons can help detect dangerous nuclear material and see into damaged nuclear power plants.

Scientists use muons for archeological purposes to peer inside large, dense objects such as the pyramids in Egypt.

https://www.energy.gov/science/doe-explainsmuons

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at 5:57:06 AM UTC+11, Fred Bloggs wrote:
> On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 1:48:39 AM UTC-5, Jan Panteltje wrote:

<snip>

> Research into muons has been ongoing since the 1950s. Your cite says absolutely nothing new. They only published it as a popular science article because of damaged medical cesium shipment in Australia, it is NOT a research report.

The actual incident was about a rather small lost caesium-137 radioactive source, that had fallen out of its shielded housing in transit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Australian_radioactive_capsule_incident

It was so intensely radioactive that it was easy to find - the radiation detector that found it was travelling at 43 miles an hours as it drove past and picked up the signal as it transversed the 870 mile transit route.

<snipped useful but irrelevant facts>

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney