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 Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:29 am Post subject: OMEGA b- |
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A new heavy cousin of the proton was found hiding in a pile of data at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill.
The new particle, long predicted to exist, is made of a bottom quark — the second-heaviest of all quarks — and two, much lighter strange quarks essentially orbiting around it, says Fermilab physicist Dmitri Denisov. The laboratory announced the discovery on September 3 and submitted a paper for publication to Physical Review Letters.
The particle, known as omega-b-minus (Ωb-), is one of many possible combinations of quarks predicted by the standard model of particle physics, the accepted foundation of the subject. The 1964 discovery of a particle made of three strange quarks was the landmark that established the mathematical basis for what would later be the theory of quarks, says Michael Peskin, a theoretical physicist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Menlo Park, Calif. “This much later discovery is just another feather in the cap of this excellent theory,” he says.
Link: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/36217/title/The_protons_strange_new_cousin |
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:39 am Post subject: |
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very interesting.. thanks for the link.
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josephpalazzo
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The amazing thing is that they were able to calculate the new particle’s mass -- 6.2 billion electron volts which is about six times that of a proton --very close to theorists’ predictions.
Hummmm, if only the buybull had done that... |
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:46 am Post subject: |
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Neato! 
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Moloth
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| josephpalazzo wrote: | The amazing thing is that they were able to calculate the new particle’s mass -- 6.2 billion electron volts which is about six times that of a proton --very close to theorists’ predictions.
Hummmm, if only the buybull had done that... |
that has got to be quite a rush to have your theoretical predictions verified by observation... and so closely, as well. how vindicating.
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| josephpalazzo wrote: | The amazing thing is that they were able to calculate the new particle’s mass -- 6.2 billion electron volts which is about six times that of a proton --very close to theorists’ predictions.
Hummmm, if only the buybull had done that... |
"He said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega b-, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life." |
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SvZurich
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:53 am Post subject: |
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But, but, the Buy-Bull say PI = 3. Goddidit.
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| SvZurich wrote: | | But, but, the Buy-Bull say PI = 3. Goddidit. |
theist response i actually heard here, at the AF: "it IS 3! 3.14~! see? the Bible IS right!"
lol.
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josephpalazzo
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:08 am Post subject: |
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| SvZurich wrote: | | But, but, the Buy-Bull say PI = 3. Goddidit. |
But then Pythagoras had to correct HIM/HER/IT... PI= 3.14159625... |
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:50 am Post subject: |
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cool stuff
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