On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM Alan Grayson <agrayson2...@gmail.com> wrote:
*>> If you want to measure the half life of a muon in the lab then you make > sure that the relative velocity between the lab and the muon is zero, or at > least very small. * > > > *> The condition you claim is necessary, seems impossible, since the lab > is at rest and the muon is moving. AG * > *Why is it impossible? Unlike a photon a muon has a nonzero rest mass, therefore a muon can NEVER travel at the speed of light and it is possible to slow them down, and if an experimenter is worth a damn he's going to make sure that relative to his lab equipment it has come to a rest, or at least is moving very slowly, before he measures it's half-life. * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* flk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3DJCtpsB4YqjYEPm2VS1e1AS1fa2cH626R6mnrfpuUPg%40mail.gmail.com.
