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 <zeropo...@charter.net>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:rogerbi...@hotmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 04, 2013 5:27 PM > *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com > *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**** >
