Re: Particle accelerators for sale?

From: Uncle Al (UncleAl0_at_hate.spam.net)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:47:46 +0000 (UTC)

Eric wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Suppose for a moment, that as a bored computer programmer, I one day
> decided to refresh my memory about partile physics. Suppose further,
> that in the process, I decided to view light as a stream of particles
> and came up with formulae to calculate both the diameter and mass of
> these particles. How would I go about testing these results
> experimentally? (Last I checked, Amazon.com wasn't stocking up on
> particle accelerators, so I need something more, er, affordable!).

Six months in the lab will save you an afternoon in the library. Any
theory falsfifed by empirical observation is wrong. First boundary
conditions, then math.

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