Re: Consistancy of the speed of light.

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In sci.physics, Greg Neill
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"Greg Neill" <gneillREM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Why do you insist on one when there are thousands
| to monitor, all doing the same thing?

Thousands doing the same thing
through a static and magnetic field?
wow..
I think you have a funny thing going on there.
They are immune to electrons according to you then?
dang,
and you know one does it the exact same as 999 others
That is pretty wild
and bullshit too.

You're being foolish again, James. The speeds of
these things are such that no deviations from
a straight line path will occur. These things
aren't floating down through honey you know.
They're moving like a bullet through a vacuum.

Pedant Point: My understanding is that they start
with 6 GeV somewhere at the top of the atmosphere
and lose 4 GeV on the way down, as they ionize
a few atoms. Not exactly moving through honey,
true ... but not quite a vacuum, either.

True, but much closer to vacuum than honey!
If you look at a particle track in a cloud chamber, there's
a much denser ionization trail left in the wake of the
particle, and yet deviation from an in-vacuo path is
practically negligible (largely because the interactions
average out).


Of course 6 GeV is far too little energy to allow
them to move at the requisite superluminal speed
to survive to the ground, in Newtonian theory (the
energy equivalent of a muon at rest is about 107 MeV),
but it works fine in SR.

[snipppage]

You know the speed how?
You detected it fly by, and timed the exact same muon
a little bit further in it's path?

We know the rest mass of the muon and we measure the
kinetic energy deposited when they hit the detector.
Simple math from there.


If one uses the right theory. :-)


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