Natural Science Forum / Physics / Particle Physics / December 2004

The casimir effect  for two flat 1cm^2 plates separated by
10^-6 metres is 10^-7 Newtons.This amounts to photons
with a mass of at least 10^-23 kg striking the plates
in 10^-8 seconds [ approximate calculation using

It seems to me that the Lorenz Contraction works if velocity
is the energy in a field and distance is inversely
proportional to the force between two fields.

If the vacuum is filled with positive and negative electric charges,
then we can imagine that there are lots of positive and  negative
charges
co-existing like mini hydrogen atoms with a first Bohr radius of about

Can anyone tell me the specific quark interactions that take place in pion
decay? The end products are all leptons (a muon and a neutrino) so what
becomes of the up and anti-down quarks? My guess is something like u -> d +
W(+) and the d annihilates with the anti-d. The W(+) can ...

It is thought that magnetic monopoles do not exist because they would
cancel out the magnetic field of our galaxy.
However magnetic monopoles with negative mass would not do
this because they could only absorb negative energy and as

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I made these images of the ignition of lighters.
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Is it true that most of anything (on earth anyway - not dark matter etc.) is
made up of nothing?  Even lead - Is most of lead made mostly from nothing?
Just Space Between Things? (things being the nuclei and electrons).
If this is true is there an average percentage of how much of ...

VACUUM ENERGY DENSITY
For a particle in a 3D box, the energy is given by
E = [(n1)^2 + (n2)^2 + (n3)^2]hbar^2/8mL^2
for L = 10^-35 metres

AN  ANALYSIS  OF  THE
                     ENERGY-MOMENTUM 4 VECTOR EQUATION
                          AND THE MASSLESS PARTICLE
A wise man once said, regarding theoretical physicists, "They are

Hi, I know it's a silly question to ask, but what practical
applications might we eventually see if the Higgs Boson is discovered?
I know, I know, all this research is being done for pure scientific
curiosity without any practical application in sight, but when our

Color is the origin of spatial dimensions.
Movement in three dimensional space is the result of
energy being added to a color.
When energy is added to a color it changes the force

This is a simple question, I hope.  Do particle accelerators have to
take account of the relativistic mass of the moving particles?  That's
not well stated, perhaps, but I hope you get the idea.
  Syzygy

The electron shell model works for light elements
yet people do the jump in conclution that once it is good for
ligh telements it is good as well for the heavy once!
that is not my findings