[Vo]:Re: Quark mass

2007-07-03 Thread Jones Beene
Horace Heffner wrote: So some of the mass, 0.45373 MeV/c2, comes from slowing down, denergizing, the nucleus. This mass is strangely close to the mass of the electron, 0.506667 MeV/c2. Curiouser and curiouser. ... and in the big-picture (which does seem to superficially support the various

Re: [Vo]:Re: Quark mass

2007-07-03 Thread Michel Jullian
Jones wrote: In any event, perhaps someone (with thick skin and large cajones) should http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cajones - 1.cajones Spanish for drawers (as in, the kind in a dresser or desk). This word is often confused by non-Spanish speakers with cojones (note

Re: [Vo]:Re: Quark mass

2007-07-03 Thread Jones Beene
Ha! Well don't forget that there is also another connotation for 'drawers' (at least in the USA)... ... but let's just say it was an inadvertent euphemism... and/or tribute to the likes of Madeline Albright's little tirade against Castro some years ago ... Michel Jullian wrote: Jones

Re: [Vo]:Re: Quark mass

2007-07-03 Thread thomas malloy
Jones Beene wrote: In particle physics, the quark is not longer considered to be a basic constituent of matter but is now considered to be a lepton which is located outside of 3-space. Interesting comment Jones. Robert Bigelow, lately in the news for launching his own space station, has

Re: [Vo]:Re: Quark mass

2007-07-03 Thread Terry Blanton
Hunt for the Skinwalker http://www.amazon.com/Hunt-Skinwalker-Science-Confronts-Unexplained/dp/1416505210/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-0980123-1165619?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1183494439sr=8-1 http://snipr.com/1ntou On 7/3/07, thomas malloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jones Beene wrote: In particle physics,

[Vo]:Re: Quark mass

2007-07-02 Thread Horace Heffner
Mp = mass of proton (2 up + 1 down) = 938.272 MeV/c^2 Mn = mass of neutron (1 up 2 down) = 939.566 MeV/c^2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron Shows neuron beta decay as the decay: down - up + electron + anti-neutrino Green, in *The Fabric of the Cosmos* gives the mass of the up quark as