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- From: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Relativity
- Message-ID: <9969@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 22:06:30 GMT
- References: <9207251756.AA07822@Ra.MsState.Edu>
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- Reply-To: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
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- In article <9207251756.AA07822@Ra.MsState.Edu> rsf1@RA.MSSTATE.EDU (Robert S. Fritzius) writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Jul22.150401.15820@news.endg.convex.com> Steve Warren
- >writes:
- >
- >>...When particles get zinging around near c in, say, the Bevatron
- >>here at Berkeley, not only does it require more enery to accelertate
- >>them, but when they smash into something (...) the energy released
- >>is significantly *more* than can be accounted for by the particles
- >>rest mass...
-
- More importantly, the momentum (hence the magnetic field required to
- bend the beam) is seen to increase even though the speed does not.
-
- >In article <1992Jul24.230350.16042@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Cameron
- >Bass responds:
- >
- >>>... A bigger problem, though, is explaining other things like the
- >>>apparently physical time dilation experienced by things like mesons.
- >
- >In nuclear fission, fast neutrons need to be slowed way down to thermal
- >speeds to increase the likelihood of their entering into neutron capture
- >events. It's as though there is a minimum value of neutron dwell-time in
- >close proximity to a nucleus required to enable the capture.
-
- This is not correct. Slow neutrons are needed only for the fission of
- specific nuclei such a U-235. Fast neutrons are required for the
- fission of other nuclei, such as U-238. The optimum energy is dictated
- by nuclear-structure details such as the location of resonances (states
- of target+neutron that are unbound but act as if they are -- and can
- sometimes be coupled strongly to the ground state or an isomeric state
- that leads to spontaneous fission). These resonances have been very
- carefully mapped out and tabulated in terms of parameters and graphs.
-
- >Perhaps for mesons there is a velocity related dwell-time factor
- >at work in their decay mechanism in addition to (or rather than) a
- >time-dilation effect.
-
- It would be rather curious to see how you would get *exactly* the
- non-linear relationship predicted by relativity and observed in
- experiment, in particular the same factor as one gets for the mass...
-
- --
- J. A. Carr | "The New Frontier of which I
- jac@gw.scri.fsu.edu | speak is not a set of promises
- Florida State University B-186 | -- it is a set of challenges."
- Supercomputer Computations Research Institute | John F. Kennedy (15 July 60)
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