why the name?(oh my god)
Probably a play on words about Leon Lederman's book "The God Particle"...
The Oh-my-God Particle
by EntirelyPossible 30 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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james_woods
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Londo111
Wow...what could have accelerated a proton that close to the speed of light?
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jgnat
Slingshot off a black hole? Quasar?
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EntirelyPossible
No one knows. Natures still holds plenty of mysteries.
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THE GLADIATOR
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The hunt for the Higgs boson witnessed what you would call an arms race between Chicago (Fermilab) and Geneva (CERN), that lasted for generations. Larger, bigger, crazier machines were built, reaching energies that were seen only once before in the whole history of the Universe: at the very moment of the Big Bang, and never again.
But the Higgs boson was nowhere to be found. This particle was so elusive that the Nobel Laureate and Higgs hunter Leon Lederman wrote a book to tell the story of this continuing failure. The original title for the book was That goddamn particle since there was no way to get your hand on it… But the editor decided to change it at the last moment into The God particle, without consulting with the author. Still, not even the Pope could figure this out.
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cantleave
Unstop the math is really quite simple
In special relativity total mass-energy of a particle is given by the equation:
where m 0 is the particle's rest mass, v is the particle's velocity, and c is the speed of light.
The rest mass of this particle will be 1 (as it is a proton)
kinetic energy is 3×10 20 eV,
and that V 0.9999999999999999999999951c
It is travelling at 1.5 femtometers (quadrillionths of a meter) per second less than the speed of light, So taking 3×10 8 metres per second as the speed of light, we find that the particle was traveling 2.999999999999999999999985×10 8 metres per second
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unstopableravens
well cant leave sense you put it that way lol
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AGuest
No one knows
Ummmmm.... nah, nevermind. Posted it here once already. Received no comments so surmised it must have been too... mmmmm... elementary... for some o' ya'll.
Peace!
A slave of Christ,
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Sulla
Just think about it this way. A single sub-atomic particle, probably a proton, hit something with the same force as a baseball moving at 100 km/h.
And it hurt like a bitch, too. Fucking sub-atomic particle.
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EntirelyPossible
Ummmmm.... nah, nevermind. Posted it here once already. Received no comments so surmised it must have been too... mmmmm... elementary... for some o' ya'll.
You did not post on this thread at all. Is this gibberish?
