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1 posted on 05/28/2012 12:11:28 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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Big Blue supers crunch kaon decay

2 posted on 05/28/2012 12:13:26 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

There is no law without a law giver.


3 posted on 05/28/2012 12:15:50 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Why do you seek the living among the dead? (Luke 24:5))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

You really ARE fascinated with this stuff, eh?


6 posted on 05/28/2012 12:40:39 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"Fascinating"
8 posted on 05/28/2012 12:48:18 PM PDT by kingattax (99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Sometimes I get the basic gist of it. This is one of those times when I don't. I don't understand exactly what's being calculated and why it takes a super-computer to calculate it. Just because a large size-difference is spanned, so what? They give the example of the difference in size between a bacterium and the solar system. Ok, we can state the difference in size between a bacterium and our solar system, and we don't need a computer at all to do that.

One hydrogen atom is much smaller than a bacterium... and a galaxy is much larger than our solar system, and yet here it is: 5x10^68 hydrogen atoms in a galaxy. Viola! No super-computer needed.

(Ok, ok, I already admitted I don't understand the posted article.)

12 posted on 05/28/2012 1:20:40 PM PDT by samtheman (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2888480/posts?page=2#2)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

If the balance had started out the other way, anti-matter would be more common and would be “matter” while what we call matter, would be the “anti-matter”. Electrons would have a positive charge while protons would be negatively charged.


14 posted on 05/28/2012 2:10:04 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

If the balance had started out the other way, anti-matter would be more common and would be “matter” while what we call matter, would be the “anti-matter”. Electrons would have a positive charge while protons would be negatively charged.


15 posted on 05/28/2012 2:15:45 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Example of Zen Buddhist kaons:

“What is the sound of one hand clapping?”

Unfortunately, this does not form matter, only nothingness.


16 posted on 05/28/2012 2:33:52 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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18 posted on 05/29/2012 3:10:11 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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19 posted on 05/29/2012 3:11:06 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
...decay described in the paper took place in a kaon, a particle far smaller than an atom. The scientists followed the decay process as the kaon split into two pions, even smaller particles. The length of the decay process spanned nearly 18 orders of magnitude, a range they compared to the difference between the size of a single bacterium and the size of our entire solar system.

Whoa! Great post - thanks.

21 posted on 05/29/2012 7:55:21 AM PDT by GOPJ ( "A Dog In Every Pot" - freeper ETL)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I didn’t see “Higgs boson” anywhere in the article.


22 posted on 05/29/2012 8:05:16 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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