Students at #SNOLAB are starting to engage in our common orientation for research experiences. One particle that comes up really early is the #muon. Students often don't learn about subatomic particle properties other than #electrons, #protons, and #neutrons until late in university. I made this video explicitly to help early-career students get familiar with the muon and see how it was the first direct test of the #relativity of time:
#PROTONS
Taiyoken
Para criar explosões de luz no espaço, utilizando um acelerador de partículas e o fenômeno de captura eletrônica para gerar neutrinos. Esses neutrinos, ao interagirem com xenônio líquido, produziriam luz intensa para comunicação, navegação, defesa planetária e iluminação. O autor também faz uma analogia entre os ciclos de extinção na Terra e eventos cósmicos como o Big Bang, Big Crunch e Big Bounce, sugerindo que a...
14,000 Years Ago, The Most Powerful Solar Storm Ever Recorded Hit Earth - This Event Establishes A New Worst-Case Scenario
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https://www.space.com/astronomy/sun/14-000-years-ago-the-most-powerful-solar-storm-ever-recorded-hit-earth-this-event-establishes-a-new-worst-case-scenario <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2025.119383 <-- shared paper
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“A storm as ferocious as the one of 12,350 BC would likely cause complete mayhem if it were to strike Earth and its surrounding space today..."
#spaceweather #prehistoric #extremesolarparticleevents #CCMSOCOL #14CEx #Radiocarbon #GlacialEpoch #solarstorm #infrastructure #risk #hazard #radiocarbon #IceAge #model #modeling #glacial #climate #geomagnetism #magnetic #protons #carbon14 #Quaternary #geology #treerings
Lightning-Fast Alchemy: CERN Just Turned Lead Into Gold – Then Watched It Vanish
An experiment has measured gold formation from lead nuclei during near-miss collisions in the Large Hadron Collider.
These high-speed interactions trigger electromagnetic processes that occasionally eject three protons, yielding gold atoms. Billions are made, but only for a split second.
SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 25th, 2025
#LiSA # perovskite #copper #electrocatalysts #CspZ #structure #"immune response" #trials #"daily cycle" #regolith #protons #hydrogen #AMOC #"warming hole" #tropics "Northern Hemisphere" #"deep aquifers" #karstified #sandstone #"natural replenishment"
The End is Near for___________ (fill in with today’s panic button).
#Physics
#Democracy
#Asparagus
…about the physics. What’s left are hard problems. We’ve picked off all the low hanging fruit. The #StandardModel still wins #Survivor in terms of fitting (most) observations, experimental or otherwise. #Protons have not suddenly started decaying. #QuantumMechanics still helps us find ways to beat alleged limits on circuit building in spite of #Relativity getting the kids on the weekend
The smallest-ever force field map of nature.
Physicists have mapped the forces acting inside a #proton, showing in unprecedented detail how #quarks—the tiny #particles within—respond when hit by high-energy #photons.
The new result breaks down #space and #time into a fine grid, allowing simulating how the strong force—the fundamental interaction that binds quarks into #protons and #neutrons—varies across different regions inside the proton.
#physics
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-scientists-proton.html
Un « #monde #quantique #caché » à l’ #intérieur des #protons révèle des #interactions #inattendues
trustmyscience.com/monde-quanti...
Un « monde quantique caché » à...
SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .Feb 8th, 2025
#Saskatchewan #Indigenous #Âsowanânihk # radiocarbon-dated #Mars #extraterrestrial #motile #L-serine #Orca #Marguerite #hunting #practicing #Mitochondria #diabetes #β-cells #ISRIB #electrons #protons #geomagnetic #high-energy
Quasi-Particles
by M. I. Kaganov, I. M. Lifshits
#soviet #books #popularscience #physics #quantummechanics #electrons #photons #protons #standardmodel #science https://archive.org/details/kaganov-lifshits-quasi-particles-mir-1979
I like my #Protons to be antifa.
First coherent picture of atomic #nucleus made of quarks and gluons
#Quarks and #gluons were used to describe properties of atomic nuclei, which until now had been explained by #protons and #neutrons.
“Until now, there have been two parallel descriptions of atomic nuclei, one based on protons and neutrons which we can see at low energies, and another, for high energies, based on quarks and gluons" This work ""managed to bring these two so far separated worlds together"
https://press.ifj.edu.pl/en/news/2024/10/15/
WOW! Something just let loose on the far side of the sun and Earth (as well as the entire solar system) is getting peppered with hard protons. Debris from the blast emerged in the form of a full halo CME. Hard protons are good at charging spacecraft bodies, fogging their cameras, and causing reboots of onboard computers. Indeed, you can see a hint of the "fog" in the movie above. Each speckle is a hard proton striking the spacecraft's digital camera. https://www.spaceweather.com has the latest on this big, BIG boom.
How #plants adjust their #photosynthesis to changing #light.
Scientists discovered that protons can be accelerated and targeted to specific areas of the body. This makes them a great option for treating cancer while minimizing damage done to healthy tissues. Proton therapy has shown effective in treating cancer including lung and prostate. The protons deposit their energy to a specific site, and are able to destroy cancer cells. #protons #sciencenews #science #StanfordUniversity #medical #chemistry #biochem #cancer
That does it.
My next band name is Charm Quarks.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/inside-the-proton-the-most-complicated-thing-imaginable-20221019/
So, does #antimatter fall up?
Nope - antiprotons accelerate downward (but is it at the same rate as regular #protons? tbd)
As a scientist, I refer to people who know their subject. That does not mean I endorse all their personal views on, for example, identity politics. We all have varying personalities, I will not link to any speaker, etc, that says something that is intentionally prejudiced.
Richard Dawkins & Lawrence Krauss Interview | 2 Conversation Combo Episode https://youtu.be/XicDuZai9go?si=l43tlECHM-aUhPfQ
#physics #QuantumMechanics #SpecialRelativity #universe #electromagnetism #electrons #protons #neutrons #science
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