Re: >H This week's fun papers
Justin Jones (frjones@swbell.net)
Sat, 16 Jan 1999 03:45:52 -0800
> From: Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se>
> To: omega@hu.se; extropians@extropy.com; transhumantech@excelsior.org;
transhuman@logrus.org
> Subject: >H This week's fun papers
> Date: Friday, January 08, 1999 7:53 AM
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SNIP
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> Decay of protons and neutrons induced by acceleration
> George E.A. Matsas, Daniel A.T. Vanzella
> http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/9901008
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> Apparently accelerations can help induce proton decay in the standard
> model; the authors calculate that for accelerations around 11MeV (I'm
> not sure how they convert energy into acceleration) the proton
> lifetime becomes roughly equal to the neutron lifetime. Maybe useful
> for matter conversion.
>
Mr Sandberg do you know if this has any implications in modern physics?
Photons are supposed to decay after a very long time right? Also, is
this phenomenon predicted by relativity?
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