Well, John, I guess they're closin' the bar. everybody has gone home. C Ya!
-mi From: John Berry [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 1:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:I confess These are good questions. The fine structure constant has been found to be quite inconstant at higher than normal energies. On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 8:06 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint <[email protected]> wrote: Roger, welcome. You might do a google search using 'attosecond physics'. and take a gander at this article: http://phys.org/news/2013-06-cool-electron.html "Cool electron acceleration" And are you off base??? Not enough info. Place a dime on the bar and take your turn on the box. ;-) -Mark Iverson From: Roger B [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 5:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Vo]:I confess 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
