Natural Science Forum / Physics / Particle Physics / June 2004

Can anyone tell me why the charge on the electron and the
proton are equal (though opposite) despite their huge disparity in mass?

2004/06/09: Eureka: Fermilab results change Higgs mass estimate
Batavia, Ill.-Scientists at the Department of Energy's Fermi National
Accelerator Laboratory today (June 9) announced new results that change the
best estimate of the mass of the postulated Higgs boson from ...

In the Lorentz transformations, the constant, v, is _not_ a velocity, it
is the _magnitude_ of a velocity, or speed. Thus, there is _no_
requirement, inherent in the Lorentz transformations, that the relative
motion of the two frames considered necessarily be inertial. Therefore,

one Hertz is a frequency of one cycle per second
it is after the great German scintist Rudolph Hertz
about a hundred years later there is other momentous  news:
it is

    It is and it isn't, unless you think about it.

I am trying to understand neutrino oscillations. The problem is I know
nothing about QFT. "Reviews" of neutrino physics usually begins with
something like "the mass term of the Lagrangian..." and then continues
with objects like (Mass_D nu_bar_R nu_bar_L + hermitian conjugate).

I'm in search of a chemical method to create a thin film of Osmium
(1-3 microns) for irradiation, and use in our K500 Cyclotron.
Eventually we will complete X- and gamma-ray analysis on the resulting
nuclei.  I need to be able to put/get the film onto a mylar backing

As the gravitational force between galaxies weakens with expansion of
the universe,
dark energy mass increases.If this mass increase comes from gravitons
losing energy to dark energy,then perhaps gluons do also.Gluons emit

A moving charge is surrounded by a circular ring of smaller charges of
the opposite sign which rotate.The faster the ring turns, the more
rest mass the smaller charges gain and the slower the translational
speed of all the charges.

i am utterly unable to understand
natural units!   can anybody give me a hint
on how they work?   or maybe a good explanatory reference ? natural units
are used exclusivly in theoretical physics.

The universe is about 10^18 seconds old since the Big Bang.
This means using E x t  = hbar that energy that has been emitted
sometime after the Big Bang has an uncertainty in its magnitude of 10^
- 52 Joules.

If dark energy has an average density of 10^ -27 kg per m^3 in the
universe
(10^52 kg / 10 ^ 79 m^3)then if it also exists in a high energy state
that can become a low energy state at some time in the future ( this

*The 'validity range'(scope)  of most formulae in physics-
is not as broad as its 'mathematical range'.
(since not all physicists realise it- it leads ,and was leadind
to harmful jumping to conclusions (bad extrapulations)