Re: Tom Roberts there seems to be something missing?


<guskz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1146415201.322368.107880@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Tom Roberts wrote:
guskz@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Tom Roberts wrote:
Sure. A neutron is a collection of quarks and gluons, not a proton and
an electron.

Sure??? #1 above say a neutron can convert into a proton and an
electron where as you just said it's only a collection of quarks and
gluons (why are you saying the opposite of #1, meaning no electrons in
a neutron)???????? How can it convert into also an electron if it's
only made of quarks and gluons (since an electron is not known as
subdividable into any smaller particles)?

There is no "opposite" here. But the neutron is indeed composed of only
quarks and gluons. These elementary particles _INTERACT_ with each
other, and that has the ability to occasionally change their flavors. A
neutron does _NOT_ need to have an electron, proton, and nubar_e "buried
inside", yet still it can decay into those particles. This is called
"beta decay" and is an interaction mediated by the weak boson W.

I have no interest in dragging you kicking and screaming through a tour
of modern physics via your perverted game of 20,000 questions. Get a
book. Study.

I didn't mean to upset or tire you in any way Tom.

Of course you did.
That is what trolls are supposed do.

But it's impossible
for a neutron to decay INTO AN ELECTRON and not also be composed of an
electron since you said it's only composed of gluons and quarks.

I say impossible because it's impossible for gluons and quarks to decay
into an electron (lepton). I don't believe I've ever read that an
external source such as radiation when combined or interacting with
gluons and quarks can produce electrons?

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/HBASE/particles/proton.html

Dirk Vdm


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