If Protons are are made of Muons, then could Muons or anti-Muons fired at a Proton/atom not cause Proton Decay and atomic Transmutation/Fission?
Particle physics isn't my bag, anyone know what results? On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 9:17 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > > You don’t see any quarks. > > > I believe this ad hoc result falls under the notion of "color > confinement," meaning you don't find partial color charge in the wild. > Instead you get a "hadron jet" of quark-antiquark pairs, whose number > depends upon the kinetic energy of the scattering particles. If we're > going to do away with quarks, we'd better think up an explanation for these > jets. > > The point being that the name “quark” is merely a place-marker which will >> be returned to when physics has a better understanding. > > > To replace quarks, we're going to have to come up with an alternative to > the "uud," "udd," etc., description, for describing things like beta +/- > decay, which sounds like a daunting project. > > Eric > >
