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Physics: Proton radius smaller than believed, European scientists say
LA Times ^ | July 7, 2010 | Thomas H. Maugh II

Posted on 07/07/2010 9:06:34 PM PDT by smokingfrog

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To: dr_who

No, silly, that’s the other end of time... a few seconds before the big crunch.


61 posted on 07/07/2010 10:19:46 PM PDT by dangus
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To: smokingfrog

LOL.

Of course.

But that takes all the fun out of it! LOL.


62 posted on 07/07/2010 10:20:04 PM PDT by Quix (THE PLAN of the Bosses: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)
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To: Captain Beyond
physics ping

You can't be serious. Have you read the posts?

63 posted on 07/07/2010 10:21:02 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: dr_who

There are Charm Quarks, and there are Lucky Charms Quarks.


64 posted on 07/07/2010 10:21:08 PM PDT by dangus
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To: UCANSEE2

No, but time-space in the region near a black hole does.


65 posted on 07/07/2010 10:23:26 PM PDT by dangus
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To: UCANSEE2
More or less the same way they detect planets orbiting distant stars.

I don't think you can say that. The electrons make quantum transitions between orbits, which is emphatically not the case for planets orbiting stars!

66 posted on 07/07/2010 10:23:54 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: smokingfrog

Actually (you know what that word means) , it is all four.

The proton is a low-inflated bouncing ball.

Goes from peanut to capsule to sphere to torus, bouncing along the electric highway. The bouncing motion describes a wave path along a straight line.


67 posted on 07/07/2010 10:25:17 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: UCANSEE2

Not really. I lied. I DO understand it. It’s just my ewoks look at me funny when I try to explain it.


68 posted on 07/07/2010 10:26:37 PM PDT by dangus
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To: coon2000
This is proof that we are really living in a hollow sphere and the blinky light thingy’s and the Sun and Moon are just attached to the rotating ceiling.

I like the ones that hang like a mobile on a babybed. You know, the one's you wind up and they go round and round?

69 posted on 07/07/2010 10:28:48 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: USNBandit
Maybe protons are shrinking due to global warming, obviously George W. Bush’s fault.

No. The shrinkage is due to getting them wet.


70 posted on 07/07/2010 10:32:38 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: dangus
The point will move more slowly when it’s near the bottom, and more quickly near the top, resulting in something more like a series of hops than a sine wave.

Well, that all depends on where you mark the point.

71 posted on 07/07/2010 10:35:29 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: dangus
No, but time-space in the region near a black hole does.

Does what?

I'd go back and listen to what I said, but my time machine won't work because they just found out protons are 4% smaller than we thought.

72 posted on 07/07/2010 10:38:11 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: shibumi

LOLOL!


73 posted on 07/07/2010 10:46:34 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: dr_lew
The electrons make quantum transitions between orbits,

Maybe they do, maybe they don't.

which is emphatically not the case for planets orbiting stars!

Are you sure?

The point was that the methodology and technology used is almost the same. Just on a different scale. Quantum Theory is just a theory. Doesn't mean it's right. Maybe it's just our limited understanding, and technology that result in us having to readjust the laws we make, because we find out we weren't accurate about the data.

74 posted on 07/07/2010 10:47:25 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: dangus
I lied.

Well, this thread seems to be the place to do that.

I DO understand it.

I promise not to tell.

75 posted on 07/07/2010 10:50:22 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: dr_lew

Are you sure they don’t? Perhaps the quanta are so small relative to the object that they have the appearance of being continuous.


76 posted on 07/07/2010 11:33:58 PM PDT by Flying Circus
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To: UCANSEE2

“Or, if the Rydberg constant is correct, the smaller size of a proton could mean the equations in QED theory will fail to work.

That’s ok. We’ll just make up a new theory.”

Which is what separates physics from “global warming” as a science.. if the evidence doesn’t work, then the theory gets tossed.. with GW, it goes the other way around.. Theory doesn’t work? toss all evidence that says it doesnt!


77 posted on 07/07/2010 11:46:53 PM PDT by Mr Inviso (ACORN=Arrogant Condescending Obama Ruining Nation)
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To: UCANSEE2

78 posted on 07/07/2010 11:59:41 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( - Eccl. 10:18 -)
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To: Grizzled Bear

Um...the “spider web” or “chain link” kind?

Spider web fishnets would definitely cheer me up.


79 posted on 07/08/2010 12:22:44 AM PDT by Salamander (If I'm too rough, tell me.......I'm so scared your little head will come off in my hands......)
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To: smokingfrog
Is this man zotting all the protons?

And what the heck is the over-sized steering wheel for anyway? For when he gets bored?

80 posted on 07/08/2010 12:28:29 AM PDT by TheThinker (Communists: taking over the world one kooky doomsday scenerio at a time.)
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