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Einsteiniana's textbooks teach that cosmic-ray muons moving with a
speed close to c live much longer than muons "at rest", and that this
gloriously confirms Divine Albert's Divine Theory. Then textbooks
explain how the lifetime of moving muons is measured but NEVER mention
the experimental procedure allowing Einsteinians to assess the
lifetime of muons "at rest". Why? Another deep secret of
Einsteiniana's.

How do Einsteinians measure the lifetime of muons "at rest"? When
cosmic-ray muons bump into an obstacle so that their speed instantly
changes from about 300000km/s to zero, their forced and quick
disintegration makes Einsteinians extremely happy. Why? Simply because
the scientific rationality is so devastated that, as the muon
undergoes such a terrible crash, Einsteinians can safely say 'Lo, a
muon at rest' and infer that non-crashing muons live longer than
crashing muons in perfect accordance with Divine Albert's Divine
Theory:

http://websci.smith.edu/~pdecowsk/muons.html
"The purpose of this experiment is to measure life time of muons
decaying at rest. Muons, produced in the atmoshere bombarded by high
energy cosmic radiation, are passing through the system of two
detectors located one above the other one. A coincidence of signals
from these two detectors (signals occuring in both detectors within
100ns) marks a particle entering the muon telescope from above and
serves as a filter rejecting many noninteresting signals from
background radiation. Some particles, with appropriate energies, will
end their flight in the lower detector (proper amount of lead between
both detectors ensures that many of them will be muons). If a stopped
particle is muon, it will decay after some time producing electron.
The time interval between signals from the muon entering the lower
detector and the electron emerging after its decay is converted by a
time-to-amplitude converter into amplitude of signal fed to the CAMAC
analog-to-digital converter (ADC) controlled by the computer. The
spectrum of time intervals is displayed in the figure below. The
expected distribution should be exponential with the exponential time
constant being the average life time of muon. The full range of the
spectrum (about channel 2000) corresponds to the time interval of
about 25 microsecond. There are not many muons with such energies that
they will end their path exactly in the lower detector (usually they
will pass both detectors and will be stopped in somewhere in the
ground), so counting rate is rather low. To collect a reasonable
number of events, the experiment has to be run a number of days."

Needless to say, such a glorious confirmation of Divine Albert's
Divine Theory makes believers sing "Divine Einstein", "Yes we all
believe in relativity, relativity, relativity" and go into
convulsions:

http://www.haverford.edu/physics/songs/divine.htm
No-one's as dee-vine as Albert Einstein
Not Maxwell, Curie, or Bohr!
He explained the photo-electric effect,
And launched quantum physics with his intellect!
His fame went glo-bell, he won the Nobel --
He should have been given four!
No-one's as dee-vine as Albert Einstein,
Professor with brains galore!
No-one could outshine Professor Einstein --
Egad, could that guy derive!
He gave us special relativity,
That's always made him a hero to me!
Brownian motion, my true devotion,
He mastered back in aught-five!
No-one's as dee-vine as Albert Einstein,
Professor in overdrive!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PkLLXhONvQ
We all believe in relativity, relativity, relativity.
Yes we all believe in relativity, 8.033, relativity.
Einstein's postulates imply
That planes are shorter when they fly.
Their clocks are slowed by time dilation
And look warped from aberration.
We all believe in relativity, relativity, relativity.
Yes we all believe in relativity, 8.033, relativity.

Pentcho Valev
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