Frequently Asked Questions
Why the Lifetime of
Disintegrating Particles
Becomes Longer at
High
Velocity.
Series #12 - Lifetime of Muons
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Question - (1-A)
How can we explain that the
lifetime of Muons becomes longer at high velocity?
A.
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Since the internal components of the nucleus in nuclear
physics also
acquire energy with velocity, we can show that this is a
consequence of
the principle of mass-energy conservation.
Here are more information
about that mechanism.
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Several readers would like to understand how to explain the fact
that
the lifetime of radioactive particles (like muons) becomes
longer when
they move at very high velocity. Of course, even if moving
clocks
run
at a slower rate, we have to understand why the nucleus of atoms
also
behaves the same way.
That question is related to a previous papers published
some years ago. We have seen previously that when we apply
the
principle of mass-energy conservation, the mass of all particles
increases with kinetic energy. That is mass-energy
conservation. For
example, inside atoms and molecules, the mass of the internal
electrons
and of the nucleus increases when kinetic energy is added to
these
particles. We have seen that this increase of mass changes
the
parameters, which control the structure of these particles when
we
apply the rules of quantum mechanics. In practice, we can
see
more
easily that the internal energy states change, following the de
Broglie
equation. For the same reason, we calculate that the
absolute
energy
of dissociation or ionization of molecules also changes, due to
the
change of mass of the internal particles forming these more
complex
particles (due to mass-energy conservation and quantum
mechanics).
The change of atomic clock rate calculated previously is just
one
example. Similarly, when we apply the same quantum
mechanics to
the
mu-mesons (which are heavy electrons), these heavy electrons
with all
their internal energy increase their masses. However, they
are
also
naturally submitted to the same quantum rules (and mass-energy
conservation) as in the case of the atoms. The rules of
nuclear
physics are quite similar to the quantum rules of atomic and
molecular
physics. The quantization of nuclear forces also leads to
a
similar
change a nuclear structure when the mass of the particles
increases due
to kinetic energy. Consequently, the lifetime of nuclear
disintegration also increases "Gamma Times" just the same way as
the
dissociation energy of molecules or its clock rate (since the
same
quantum mechanics must be applied to all systems).
The
quantum
phenomena applicable to atomic and molecular physics also apply
to
nuclear physics.
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I wish to add that furthermore, another very interesting
consequence
appears in the case of very large (organic) molecules.
Using
quantum
mechanics, we know that when there is an increase of electron
mass, the
very large organic molecules vibrate and oscillate more slowly
due to
the increase of electron mass. Their rate of vibration and
oscillation
slows down at very high velocities, just as for the case of
atoms, as
seen by the slowing down of clocks.
Consequently, our human body, which is formed of very large
organic
molecules, possesses a different size (different Bohr radius)
and a
reduced rate of evolution when our body moves at relativistic
speeds,
due to the increase of mass of all the electrons inside the
molecules
of our body. Consequently, the rate of our organic
evolution is
slowed
down, which is interpreted (by humans) as "getting older" more
slowly,
when we move at velocities approaching the velocity of
light. An
equivalent description has been published in 1997 in Appendix I of the book
"Einstein's
Theory of Relativity versus Classical Mechanics".
In fact, all these results are quite evident and appear quite
naturally
when we apply the change of mass of particles and quantum
mechanics to:
atoms, molecules (small and very large) and nuclei in all fields
of
physics.
These
consequences are the reasons for which we can write that
everything can
be explained logically, without the magic (non sense) of
relativity.
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