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.
- 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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