At 11:59 AM 10/30/2009, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote:
If all the kings men and all the kings horses put all of their
herculean efforts into proving the legitimacy of these sub atomic
particles they may very well prove their "point."
But if all of this effort produces yet another cold teapot...
Now, wouldn't it be interesting if we got radiation and no heat?
(Imagine some strange reaction where all the excess energy was dumped
into neutrons or other radiation.)
The idea that excess heat is easier to detect reliably than radiation
is downright weird. One particle can be detected, and, under the
right conditions, even characterized, and with its energy being
estimated, but the amount of heat involved would not be measurable
with calorimetry.
