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"mike3" |
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09 Jan 2005 04:37:16 PM |
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Appearance of strange quark matter. |
Hi.
When I asked a while ago about what strange quark matter looks like,
you said that it would be 'invisible'. What did you mean by this? Were
you saying that any light on the opposite side would pass right through
as though there was nothing there, ie. the SQM is exactly 100%
transparent? Or would it simply absorb all the light -- so it would be
visible, as a black object?
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| User: "Old Man" |
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| Title: Re: Appearance of strange quark matter. |
09 Jan 2005 09:44:09 PM |
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"mike3" <mike4ty4@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1105310236.011279.220640@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
Hi.
When I asked a while ago about what strange quark matter looks like,
you said that it would be 'invisible'. What did you mean by this? Were
you saying that any light on the opposite side would pass right through
as though there was nothing there, ie. the SQM is exactly 100%
transparent? Or would it simply absorb all the light -- so it would be
visible, as a black object?
Nonsense. Other than zero (white), the quantum number
for quark "color" isn't observed. Composite particles
that contain quarks with non-zero "strangeness" or "charm"
quantum numbers are empirically distinguishable from
each other and from composite particles containing quarks
of other "flavors".
[Old Man]
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| User: "mike3" |
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| Title: Re: Appearance of strange quark matter. |
20 Jan 2005 03:08:08 AM |
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Old Man wrote:
"mike3" <mike4ty4@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1105310236.011279.220640@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
Hi.
When I asked a while ago about what strange quark matter looks
like,
you said that it would be 'invisible'. What did you mean by this?
Were
you saying that any light on the opposite side would pass right
through
as though there was nothing there, ie. the SQM is exactly 100%
transparent? Or would it simply absorb all the light -- so it would
be
visible, as a black object?
Nonsense. Other than zero (white), the quantum number
for quark "color" isn't observed. Composite particles
that contain quarks with non-zero "strangeness" or "charm"
quantum numbers are empirically distinguishable from
each other and from composite particles containing quarks
of other "flavors".
[Old Man]
Just answer the question: exactly what would a chunk of SQM look like?
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| User: "Franz Heymann" |
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| Title: Re: Appearance of strange quark matter. |
20 Jan 2005 08:34:48 AM |
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"mike3" <mike4ty4@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1106212088.627014.156070@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
Old Man wrote:
"mike3" <mike4ty4@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1105310236.011279.220640@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
Hi.
When I asked a while ago about what strange quark matter looks
like,
you said that it would be 'invisible'. What did you mean by
this?
Were
you saying that any light on the opposite side would pass right
through
as though there was nothing there, ie. the SQM is exactly 100%
transparent? Or would it simply absorb all the light -- so it
would
be
visible, as a black object?
Nonsense. Other than zero (white), the quantum number
for quark "color" isn't observed. Composite particles
that contain quarks with non-zero "strangeness" or "charm"
quantum numbers are empirically distinguishable from
each other and from composite particles containing quarks
of other "flavors".
[Old Man]
Just answer the question: exactly what would a chunk of SQM look
like?
Exactly like a chubnk of SQM, whateverthat may be.
Franz
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| User: "Mark Fergerson" |
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| Title: Re: Appearance of strange quark matter. |
20 Jan 2005 03:35:36 AM |
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mike3 wrote:
Just answer the question: exactly what would a chunk of SQM look like?
Just answer the question; did you remember to add some leptons
(electrons, muons, tauons)? If not, YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO SEE IT BECAUSE
NUCLEONS ARE ESSENTIALLY INCAPABLE OF INTERACTING WITH VISIBLE PHOTONS!
If you have enough leptons filling the orbitals to reflect incident
light, it'll look a lot like ordinary matter.
There, was that so hard?
Mark L. Fergerson
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| User: "John Sefton" |
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| Title: Re: Appearance of strange quark matter. |
11 Jan 2005 08:22:01 AM |
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Old Man wrote:
"mike3" <mike4ty4@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1105310236.011279.220640@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
Hi.
When I asked a while ago about what strange quark matter looks like,
you said that it would be 'invisible'. What did you mean by this? Were
you saying that any light on the opposite side would pass right through
as though there was nothing there, ie. the SQM is exactly 100%
transparent? Or would it simply absorb all the light -- so it would be
visible, as a black object?
Nonsense. Other than zero (white), the quantum number
for quark "color" isn't observed. Composite particles
that contain quarks with non-zero "strangeness" or "charm"
quantum numbers are empirically distinguishable from
each other and from composite particles containing quarks
of other "flavors".
[Old Man]
Lots of quotation marks.
QM is quickly becoming a "theory".
:-)
John
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