An extra five minute’s sleep
The fortune teller at the circus tried to sell me one. I’m still not interested.
Trump is a strong force. He’s got his quarks, but he sure is causing perturbation of the rats and GOPe.
Trump is a strong force. He’s got his quarks, but he sure is causing perturbation of the rats and GOPe.
Does it taste like chicken?
It would mean to me, at lower than the molecule level, how any coffee company is able to make ‘pumpkin pie flavoed coffee’, without any pumpkin pie in it at all.
I have trouble drinking 5 quarks of beer.
Isn’t that a former Indian themed summer camp than now helps inter city nerdy kids learn to code and make websites?
I give up.
I’m never any good at these guessing games.
“Pentaquark”?
The latest sedan from Dodge?
It would still mean God in the mix.
Brilliant. I had missed this. thanks for the post.
“When protons and neutrons merge to form atoms, they relinquish some of their mass. The missing mass (or mass defect) is converted to energy, which, in overly simplistic terms, is what’s being used to hold the atomic nucleus together. It’s called binding energy. To split a nucleus into its constituent particles would therefore require an ABSORPTION of energy; it would not release it.
However, let’s assume that you could convert all of the atoms in a human body to energy. The amount of energy stored in a given amount of mass is given by the formula E = mc^2.
A mass of 1 kg therefore releases:
E = (1 kg)(3.00e8 m/s)^2
E = 9.0e16 J
That’s equivalent to about 21.5 megatons of TNT, or the approximate explosive yield of a large hydrogen bomb.
And that’s just one kilogram (2.2 lbs).
So the explosive yield of any mass, if it is converted entirely to energy, is 21.5 megatons per kilogram (9.77 megatons per pound).”
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In other words if you weigh between, say, 150 and 200 pounds, you are carrying around between (68 x 21.5) and (91 x 21.5) megatons of potential nuclear energy, the equivalent of 68 to 91 large nuclear bombs, at least according to the piece above. So PLEASE be careful not to burp or bump into someone!!-ETL
Kind of wild for an old guy like me. Thanks for posting.
...hold on! I think I may have screwed up on my calculations. I’ll try it again in a few.
The word "pentaquark" means "five quarks". They are hypothetical particles made out of five quarks-or-antiquarks.
The Greek prefix is being used to remember the times when Greece was an advanced country, some 2,000 years ago.
http://motls.blogspot.com/2015/07/pentaquark-discovery-claimed-by-lhcb.html
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Ouch!
Because perturbation theory doesn’t work...
Why would anyone refer to a nonsense idea? “Theories” that don’t work are nothing but blather, no matter how many eggheads talk about them. We’re just talking about guesses based on guesses based on assumptions at this level anyhow.
