To: smokingfrog
However, a proton is still larger than Obummer’s brain.
2 posted on
07/07/2010 9:07:49 PM PDT by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: smokingfrog
Why do they assume that a proton is spherical?
3 posted on
07/07/2010 9:08:13 PM PDT by
Hoodat
(.For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
To: smokingfrog
What difference does it make, with the budget being over 3 trillion, they won’t get any funding anyway.
4 posted on
07/07/2010 9:10:55 PM PDT by
Beowulf9
To: smokingfrog
The proton finding won’t impact most people’s daily lives. But if it proves correct, it means something fundamental is wrong in particle physics.
It’s possible the smaller proton means the Rydberg constant hasn’t been correctly measured. This value describes the way light gets emitted from various elements—a key component of spectroscopy, which is used, for instance, to tell which kinds of elements exist in galaxies and the vast interstellar gas-and-dust clouds called nebulae.
Or, if the Rydberg constant is correct, the smaller size of a proton could mean the equations in QED theory will fail to work.
6 posted on
07/07/2010 9:12:38 PM PDT by
smokingfrog
( - Eccl. 10:18 -)
To: smokingfrog
Like, duh, anyone could have seen that by just looking at a proton.
7 posted on
07/07/2010 9:12:51 PM PDT by
bgill
(how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the POTUS)
To: smokingfrog
Who cares what the true radius is? Why don’t they just go with a consensus of leading physicists?
8 posted on
07/07/2010 9:13:04 PM PDT by
fhayek
To: SunkenCiv
10 posted on
07/07/2010 9:15:13 PM PDT by
Captain Beyond
(The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
To: smokingfrog
Weird. What’s taken for a standard, or well-known established value, is at times in history .. found to be not so, because it is some measurement or value of a parameter rarely used in practice.
11 posted on
07/07/2010 9:16:15 PM PDT by
bvw
To: smokingfrog; Salamander; Markos33; Slings and Arrows; Quix; Alamo-Girl; betty boop; Fichori; ...
Shhhhhhh!
Just wait 'till they figure out it isn't really there at all!
12 posted on
07/07/2010 9:19:24 PM PDT by
shibumi
( "Tsuru no Sugomori")
To: smokingfrog; writer33; KevinDavis
omi-gawd!!!
This can’t happen!
This is horrible news! Just tragic!!
*sob*!
no not really. ha!
14 posted on
07/07/2010 9:20:39 PM PDT by
GeronL
(Just say NO to conservativecave.com, it rots your teeth!)
To: smokingfrog
This is all fine and dandy, but Schrödinger’s cat is still dead — at least the last time I looked, I mean.
18 posted on
07/07/2010 9:23:52 PM PDT by
50cal Smokepole
(Effective gun control involves effective recoil management)
To: smokingfrog
“Physicists might have to rethink what they know about, well, everything. “
Not a problem. According to the reports and articles I read, they do that about once a month.
20 posted on
07/07/2010 9:25:43 PM PDT by
UCANSEE2
(The Last Boy Scout)
To: smokingfrog
it’s probably shrinking due to global warming. obviously this is Bush’s fault.
24 posted on
07/07/2010 9:26:46 PM PDT by
madamemayhem
(defeat isn't getting knocked down, it's not getting back up)
To: smokingfrog
Sophisticated measurements from experiments indicate the radius is 4% smaller than thought. What? This cannot be true! If I'd have known this five minutes ago...never mind. We've got a really big problem but I think I can fix it. Can someone fetch me a #5 left handed monkeywrench, 13 rolls of duct tape and a purple gimp mask?
45 posted on
07/07/2010 9:59:31 PM PDT by
Grizzled Bear
(Does not play well with others)
To: smokingfrog
Maybe protons are shrinking due to global warming, obviously George W. Bush’s fault.
47 posted on
07/07/2010 10:02:04 PM PDT by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: smokingfrog
I think it best we not tell Al Gore about this.
58 posted on
07/07/2010 10:17:03 PM PDT by
eclecticEel
(Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
To: smokingfrog
I knew it!! I knew it!!! That’s why my proton belt is too short lately.
82 posted on
07/08/2010 12:58:46 AM PDT by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: smokingfrog
Well we conjured up "Dark Matter" to make up for the missing mass of the universe, we conjured up "Dark Energy" to explain the increasing speed of expansion and "Inflation" to explain why the universe is flat, homogeneous and isotropic.
Going to have to conjure up something to explain the smaller proton radius. Just 4% of the radius should be easy conjuring, virtual radius Vs. real radius ;^)
83 posted on
07/08/2010 1:14:56 AM PDT by
The Cajun
(Mind numbed robot , ditto-head, Hannitized, Levinite)
To: stylecouncilor
¨No Beaker. No!¨
88 posted on
07/08/2010 8:18:46 AM PDT by
onedoug
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