Proton Smaller Than Thought‹May Rewrite Laws of Physics
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From: Yousuf Khan on 9 Jul 2010 14:11 On 7/9/2010 11:18 AM, Billy wrote: > In article<NbSdnVxspLt8e6nRnZ2dnUVZ8vudnZ2d(a)giganews.com>, > Yousuf Khan<bbbl67(a)spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote: > > Good article, thank you. But what an odd place to find it. What do you mean? Yousuf Khan >> Proton Smaller Than Thought�May Rewrite Laws of Physics >> "For each hydrogen atom, the team replaced the atom's electron with a >> particle called a muon, which is 200 times more massive than an electron. >> >> "Because the muon is so much heavier, it orbits very close to the >> proton, so it is sensitive to the proton's size," said team member Aldo >> Antognini, of the Paul-Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. >> >> Muons are unstable, and they decay into other particles in just 2.2 >> microseconds. The team knew that firing a laser at the atom before the >> muon decays should excite the muon, causing it to move to a higher >> energy level�a higher orbit around the proton. The muon should then >> release the extra energy as x-rays and move to a lower energy level. >> >> The distance between these energy levels is determined by the size of >> the proton, which in turn dictates the frequency of the emitted x-rays. >> >> But based on the accepted proton radius, the experiment failed to >> produce x-rays at the anticipated frequency." >> http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/07/100707-science-proton-smaller- >> standard-model-quantum-physics/ |