On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> My hunch is the muon is not fundamental because it spontaneously breaks >> down into smaller parts, but the electron and neutrino and photon are. >> > > > > But combine an electron with a positron and both will "break down" into > light. > And the process is completely reversible, 2 photons of light of sufficiently high energy (Gamma Rays) can turn into a electron and a positron, but without outside influence a single electron or positron or photon or neutrino will never decay into anything, as far as we know their half life is infinite. By contrast the half life of a muon is very finite indeed, .000002 seconds; that's a long time by particle physics standards but very short by human standards. John K Clark -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
