[AntonioLao]

The stability of the nucleus is the responsibility of those heavenly dogs known as p-mesons or pions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pion. The word ‘heaven’ in this sense means everlasting. The word ‘hell’ means short-lived. Therefore, all rabid mad dogs go to hell. They are the k-mesons or kaons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaon. Although kaons are involved interestingly in broken symmetries: parity and charge-parity violations, no more will be discussed. The rest of this discussion will concentrate on the question: why a proton refuses to decay?

From cosmic rays and high energy researches, it has been well established that pions come in three species: p+, p-, p° respective electric charges are: 1, -1, 0. Theories indicate that the decay mode of a proton most likely follows: p ®p° + e+, that is the release of a neutral pion and a positron. This mode violates both baryon number and lepton number. These violations seriously disturbed nature’s sanity. To avoid going mad, nature summons all the four fundamental forces to help prevent proton decay. However, so far only three cooperated.

No one understand why gravity refused to cooperate? Why gravity ignores most bosons even though it belongs to the family of gauge bosons. Is it because it is really an immortal cat on a hot tin roof? If these cats are the tiny kittens called gravitons, what role would be played by the biggest cat of them all, the scalar Higgs boson?

[mkirkpatrick]

They do not refuse though do they? they just take an enormous time to do it?There is a
fundamental principle here staring us in the face,what is it?
It has to do with minimising!

regards michael.

[AntonioLao]

Originally Posted by mkirkpatrick They do not refuse though do they?

The very moment gravity cooperates our mass becomes zero and we can harness anti-gravity to move from here to the farthest corners of the universe in a blink of an eye.