I confess to being an ignoramus. I confess to having only a B.A. in
psychology, a B.A. in philosophy, and an A.S. in electronics technology. I am,
however, a philosophical savant.
I have a question that I have asked several times but have never gotten an
answer. By what means do conventional physicist probe and understand the
innards of the atom? What is the minimum speed of the particles that they
shoot into the atom to see what is there? Do they ever use some version of
light to understand the innards of the atom?
If, as I suppose, and I could be wrong, all of the particles "shot" into the
atom are traveling close to the speed of light, then could not there be some
unknown characteristic at this speed, perhaps as yet unknown to us, that causes
things inside the atom to behave differently than from how they would behave if
the probing particle were going much slower. For example, what if the almost
light speed particle had a bow wave in front of it as it flew through the
aether? If every single particle that was used to probe the inside of the atom
were traveling at .99 the speed of light, then this "distortion" would be the
same in every experiment, and one aspect of this limited view inside the atom
we might call the "Coulomb Barrier".
Is this all possible? Or am I off base?
Roger Bird
Colorado
