Re: Twin paradox revisited ll

On Jul 22, 6:10 pm, bz <bz+...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Sue..." <suzysewns...@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 the case of accelerators light is more a movtive tool
than an observational tool. A hocky puck doesn't know
the muzzle velocity of a rifle. But if you are accelerating
the puck by shooting at it, it will *appear* to have a top
speed equal to the muzzle velocity of the rifle.



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.

Guessing how muons behave is certainly easier than
reading about them.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1981PhDT.......130L

Would "stopped" muons work as well as "trapped" muons?

<< During a 5 s ``fill period'', muons are directed to a thin
stopping target. A 22 s ``measurement period'' follows with
the beam ``off'' while the stopped muons decay. A spherical
detector surrounding the target detects the decay positrons. >>
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006APS..DNP.3A046K


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

I was wrong when I predicted you would give up on the
absurd twins myth within a year. :-(

"The [ ] Incompatibility of the Law of Propagation of
Light with the Principle of Relativity [is only] Apparent"
http://www.bartleby.com/173/7.html

Sue...


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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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