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M.E.G.O.
My Eyes Glaze Over.
Obama is “ the anti-muon.”
I knew it!
Particle Physics Ping!!
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Which is code for:
"We need more and bigger research grants, and a better pension plan, a company car, 30 minute coffee breaks and a hour and a half for lunch because traffic is getting bad and we can't go watch a stripper, eat a double cheese and fries, scarf down a couple beers and make it back to the lab to snooze.. er watch particles collide in an hour."
“In a mere 1.5 trillionths of a second, B mesons and their antiparticles disintegrate in any of hundreds of ways. In one of the more unusual decay paths — so rare it happens only about once in every million decays — a B meson turns into a particle called a K* meson and a particle-antiparticle pair.”
Ok, got it.
I think I saw two of my cats chasing one of these around last night....
The Belle team found that the number of positrons or anti-muons released in one direction, the direction of travel of the K* meson, doesn't equal the number released in the opposite direction. The standard model of particle physics predicts such an asymmetry because the weak interaction picks a preferred direction in space. Physicists several decades ago traced this preference to massive messenger particles that mediate the interaction. As a result, the mirror image of a physical process involving the weak interaction doesn't look the same as the original.My second grade class proved this using some old coffee cans, a nine-volt battery, and a box of red licorice. Yes, even in science projects, the red licorice is preferred. ;') Thanks neverdem for the topic, BenLurkin for the ping, and martin_fierro for the comic. :')
“I think I lost my electron”
“Are you sure?”
“I’m positive”