Re: Twin paradox revisited ll

"Sue..." <suzysewnshow@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:1185063018.858559.88670
@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:

Muons. They live thousands of times longer than
their otherwise identical cousins that move more slowly.
Things have moved on since 1918. Don;t tell me you
too are "stuck in the past"?

Muons couple to their surroundings with a force
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times

the force that gives the components of your watch
some inertia.

A rubber ducky in you bathtub is closer to the
QE II for comparisons sake.

That isn't an answer. They couple similarly to a proton. No
"new physics" there either.

They are coupled to accelerator magnets rather than
to Stella's wrist watch.


Ya know what is really strange? The half life is proportional to the
apparent velocity in the storage ring, NOT the field strength of the
magnets of the accelerator. Seems like if it depended on the coupling, it
would be proportional to the magnets field strength, wouldn't it?

In fact, I bet that if I used a very strong em field to 'trap' the muons
but don't make them run around in circles, they don't live any longer than
their brothers that never are subject to the magnetic field.

Ah, but Caesar was an honorable man and Sue never is wrong.




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bz

please pardon my infinite ignorance, the set-of-things-I-do-not-know is an
infinite set.

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