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New Theories / How does a star make the neutron?
« on: 19/10/2010 18:47:37 »
"Bored Chemist, this is actually a really good question. I am assuming the you conclude that the particle zoo listed above is determined by slamming, typically protons into the nucleus, similar to a car crash and observing what results from the wreck. Hence the particle zoo.
They would use electrons but the energy is not sufficient. Slamming an electron with a proton would be like a forty (40 lb) pound girl running into a two hundred fifty (250 lb) pound football player; this would do no damage to the football player, and the only person that would be hurt is the little girl.
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Sort of.
It's a bit more like saying that if I throw baseballs at a car and see where I need to throw them to get them to bounce off I can work out the shape of the car to an accuracy of roughly the size of a baseball. If I uses spacehoppers I can only tell the shape of teh car to the nearest "spacehopper".
I can tell a car from a truck using either projectile, but I would struggle to tell two sorts of small car apart.
You are saying that my use of baseballs is not permitted because they have too much energy and so they bounce off something inside the car, or break the windows or some such.
If that's the case, it's going to be impossible to tell the two cars apart.
Actually, it's worse than that but ...
Anyway, saying " This would be a very subtle point requiring exact energy probes." doesn't really help much.
What would you actually need to do? If you can't answer that then you have entered the world of theology. You are saying one thing is bigger than another but it doesn't look like it is, because it changes when you look at it.
I don't see that as science.
They would use electrons but the energy is not sufficient. Slamming an electron with a proton would be like a forty (40 lb) pound girl running into a two hundred fifty (250 lb) pound football player; this would do no damage to the football player, and the only person that would be hurt is the little girl.
"
Sort of.
It's a bit more like saying that if I throw baseballs at a car and see where I need to throw them to get them to bounce off I can work out the shape of the car to an accuracy of roughly the size of a baseball. If I uses spacehoppers I can only tell the shape of teh car to the nearest "spacehopper".
I can tell a car from a truck using either projectile, but I would struggle to tell two sorts of small car apart.
You are saying that my use of baseballs is not permitted because they have too much energy and so they bounce off something inside the car, or break the windows or some such.
If that's the case, it's going to be impossible to tell the two cars apart.
Actually, it's worse than that but ...
Anyway, saying " This would be a very subtle point requiring exact energy probes." doesn't really help much.
What would you actually need to do? If you can't answer that then you have entered the world of theology. You are saying one thing is bigger than another but it doesn't look like it is, because it changes when you look at it.
I don't see that as science.