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- From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: My son would like to know about photons...
- Message-ID: <mcirvin.714918188@husc8>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 12:23:08 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.142916.533@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> <12950072@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM>
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- ric@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM (Ric Peregrino) writes:
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- >What about beta decay? This doesn't "split" a quark, but it does transform
- >one quark into another with the release of an electron and it's antineutrino
- >(I think?). So in some sense the original quark was broken into constituents.
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- Yeah, that's what it does. The products aren't consistuents of
- the original quark in the usual sense of the word; a down quark
- isn't a bound state of an up quark, an electron and an antineutrino.
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- Matt McIrvin, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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