nature of muon

[AntonioLao]

Muons were first discovered in the study of cosmic rays in the middle of the 1930s. Since the mass of a muon is about 207 times that of the electron, scientists thought at first they have found Yukawa’s particle. This is the intermediate mass particle between a proton and an electron and believed to be responsible for the strong (color) interaction among hadrons (i.e. between proton and neutron). In 1947, the true Yukawa’s particles were discovered. These are the three species of pions. Two years later, Hideki Yukawa (1907-81) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for his theory of subnuclear interactions. Now scientists begin to question the physical purpose of muons. One perplexed physicist by the name of Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898-198 who developed magnetic resonance (pioneering MRI) and was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize for Physics asked the question: “Who ordered that?” Muons are truly natural purposeless particles, which has no clear reason for their existence and has no known practical engineering utility. Fortunately, they can decay within 3 microseconds (millionth of a second of time) into an electron, a muon neutrino, and an electron antineutrino.


Although muons can catalyze cold nuclear fusion reaction, its extremely short half-life can never make the reaction totally economical for industrial uses, for example, generating the energy of electrical power plants or for combustion engines in automobiles. The promise of cold fusion by muon-catalyzed reaction has now reached a dead end and no future experiment is anticipated. However, the question can still be asked: what would become the properties of a hydrogen atom whose orbiting electron is replaced by a muon? On the other hand, if the same electron is moving (rotational speed around the nucleus) at 0.9999767 the speed of light then its relativistic mass is also 207 times its rest mass. In this sense the atomic electron became a muon by reason of its orbital speed approaching the speed of light. There is no known technical method to increase the angular speed of an electron inside a hydrogen atom. However, inside a linear accelerator, for example, at Stanford Linear Accelerator Facility (SLAC), in Palo Alto, California, an electron can be accelerated such that its relativistic mass goes beyond the rest mass of muon reaching the rest mass of the tauon; and at exactly lightspeed, the relativistic mass of the electron is infinite.

[mkirkpatrick]

Perhaps there is something in the nature of muon that has not yet been discovered.


regards michael.

[AntonioLao]

Exhaustive studies had uncovered nothing more. It is now 81 years since its discovery in 1930 by Anderson et al. FYI, Anderson was also the experimentalist who discovered positron in cosmic rays and vindicated Dirac theory of the electron, the existence of a new quantum number called the spin, and the prediction of antimatter.

[mkirkpatrick]

Exhaustive studies had uncovered nothing more. It is now 81 years since its discovery in 1930 by Anderson et al. FYI, Anderson was also the experimentalist who discovered positron in cosmic rays and vindicated Dirac theory of the electron, the existence of a new quantum number called the spin, and the prediction of antimatter.

Well then we know all there is to know about the muon then?

regards michael.

[spacedout]

If an electron orbit is tuned to the frequency (rotation) of vortexes in the nucleus of the atom the heavier mass of the muon would have such a large orbit that it would fly out into space. If the core of quarks is a cube with 2 sides moving inward as the other sides move outward; this gives 8 xyz phase spin at the apexes of the cube. Every other spin of the 8 vortex will opposite spin. Moving 1/3 rotation around the first apex then moving 1/3 counterrotating around the second vortex and finally 1/3 rotation around the the third vortex is 1/2 way around the core or the quark core and has a full spin around the vortexes. This seems to be a good reason for 1/2 spin. Some scientists gave this example with two like coins one rotation around another; the rotating coin will rotate a full two turns to go around the fixed coin. This is exactly what I have done with the cubic core. The actual distance traveled will be slighty longer due to the 1/2 turn around the core.

I wonder If cold fusion could be done by freezing the atom so that it rotates slower and then add a frozen muon. Scientists have frozen light to around 20 mph.

[AntonioLao]

spacedout, like myself you are one theorist in search of funding for your ideas. But frankly, your ideas are much more difficult to implement because of physical concepts that are not verifiable just yet. That is to say you can't work on something that don't exist, vortexes don't exist. Quark is a point particle without any sides.