Re: Muon Question

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From: Randy Poe
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:02

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On Nov 19, 1:51 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 19 Nov, 05:24, Peri of Pera <rie...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in
> sci.physics.relativity:
>
> > How many relativistic frames are involved when we observe or deal with
> > space muons in the atmosphere? Are we in an observer frame and the
> > muons in an observed frame? If so what are the mathematical and
> > logical relationships between these two frames?
> > Peter Riedt
>
> What is crucial in this case is the definition of "muons at rest".
> When the lifetime "at rest" is measured, by "at rest" Einstein
> criminal cult mean a crash undergone by the muon in which its speed
> changes from about 300000km/s to zero. That crash is so terrible that
> the muon "dies" quickly, much more quickly than muons that have not
> undergone the crash:

What makes muons so fragile? Why don't protons, electrons,
or most other particles fall apart under this "terrible" crash?

             - Randy

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