Jones, I would like to hear your arguments of evidence that the muons CAME from the proton.
My first observation is that muons are ~100MeV particles by positive mass energy. That says that ~200MeV could wrench a muon - antimuon pair into existence (presumably from the Dirac sea). Since this was a 14TeV collision, enough energy was present to liberate 70 muon - antimuon pairs - forgetting entirely about the presence of the protons. That they saw 4 muons emerge does not strike me as evidence they came from a proton. Second, I thought these collisions were conducted in a vacuum. An antimuon is just a +charged muon, and in a vacuum I would not think an antimuon would be subject to more rapid recombination than than the ordinary muon. It should have been observed. Bob Higgins On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 9:07 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > Let me try to be more specific on this point: > > Ø > > Ø Protons do not decay in a cold state, but if accelerated fast enough > (as at CERN) – they will decay to 4 muons after a collision. This does not > absolutely mean that protons are made of muons, but it is an indication of > some kind of cross-identity... The reason there are 4 instead of 9 may > relate to antimuon annihilation. > > > > Here is a reference from CERN on the Higgs boson process in which protons > are collided at high energy to form muons. > > > > http://home.web.cern.ch/images/2014/01/higgs-boson-decay-four-muons > > > > Note that in this collision, the only massive particles with any > appreciable lifetime are the protons being collided and the muons seen in > the debris. The Higgs boson may or may not have existed at all, and > everything else is converted into energy – within picoseconds. > > > > On the surface, this happenstance could be argued (if you support the > Stubbs theory) to demonstrate that a proton is built of 9 basic particles – > 4 muons and 5 antimuons. The antimatter does not survive for any > appreciable time, so the only particles remaining after high energy proton > decay are the 4 muons, and they too decay quickly, but can be said to be > the only mass in the debris which is identifiable for an appreciable time > (nanoseconds). > > > > > > >
