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Wimpzillas (particle 1000 billion times more massive than proton) leave tracks say astronomers
New Scientist ^
| 12:30 03 June 02
| Anil Ananthaswamy
Posted on 06/10/2002 11:17:08 AM PDT by dead
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06/10/2002 11:17:08 AM PDT
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dead
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06/10/2002 11:30:05 AM PDT
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WIMom
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Mathlete;
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If Blasi and his colleagues are right, they expect to see gamma rays streaming out from the centre of the Galaxy, as Wimpzillas should be there in abundance. "It could revolutionise our understanding of basic physics in this century," says Dick.We need to send someone to see these Wimpzillas !
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RadioAstronomer; Scully; Piltdown_Woman...
Massive particle ping. (They should have named it the "Nadleron.")
Jerrold Nadler
To: dead
WIMPzilla = Colin Powell?
To: PatrickHenry
ROTFLMAO!
To: PatrickHenry
Hey! Hey! Hey! Scientists may have to work with that particle.
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06/10/2002 12:25:49 PM PDT
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Gumlegs
To: PatrickHenry
So that's where it went! Jaaba, munching his way through hyperspace!
To: dead
Are these WIMPzillas the same as the superhuge particles that are blasting through the earth all the time sometimes creating a seismic event like a small earthquake or a boom in the sky causing some to think a small nuke has been tested?
To: RightWhale, Physicist
I was wondering the same thing.
Better ask the expert.
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06/10/2002 12:35:54 PM PDT
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dead
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To: PatrickHenry
I'm pretty sure he generates his own gravity field equivalent to a black hole. That's why nothing of importance ever escapes the event horizon, formed around the mouth.
To: dead
"These beams of particles bombard Earth from space. Their energies are too high for them to have travelled from a distant source, so they must have been created close by, but astrophysicists have no idea what in our neighbourhood could have caused them."
God
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06/10/2002 1:13:56 PM PDT
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revolted
To: RightWhale
To: dead
Their energies are too high for them to have travelled from a distant sourceStill wondering what that could possibly mean...
To: PatrickHenry
Piffle. It's only a theory.
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To: Physicist
Their energies are too high for them to have travelled from a distant source
Still wondering what that could possibly mean...
There is no drag force in space...(grin)
To: Physicist
LOL! You didn't know that only very low energy particles can travel great distances?
The paradoxical theory was proposed by the same guy that gave Charles Grodin a talk show.
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06/10/2002 1:42:20 PM PDT
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dead
To: Physicist
Still wondering what that could possibly mean... I think it's probably a gamma ray flux issue. For them to be observable in the quantities actually seen, and yet to have been generated from far off, it would require some really big source which would be observable in some other spectral band.
If the source is relatively close-in, it takes far fewer emitted rays to give the same flux.
Or something like that.
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06/10/2002 1:43:21 PM PDT
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r9etb
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