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Subject: Re: Muon paradox
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 18:28:11 +0000
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On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 17:58:59 +0000, Paul.B.Andersen wrote:
>
> Den 09.04.2025 16:07, skrev gharnagel:
> >
> > The problem with AI apps that Crossen used is that it's not accurate.
> > Crossen finds one source that agrees with his bias and stops looking,
> > then makes post after post after post believing he has discovered the
> > ultimate truth!
>
> The muons in the laboratory which the AI-app said travel at speeds
> very close to the speed of light was probably muons in a storage ring.
>
> I chose the "laboratory" to be the lab where the atmospheric muons
> were counted. So the muons don't only have the same speed, they are
> the same muons.

And I chose the laboratory to mean when the muon lost energy as it
was slowed down by matter and came to rest:

www.ucl.ac.uk · ~zcapg66 · work

> What kind of reasoning is behind Laurence's question:
> "Then why would they "time dilate" in the atmosphere?"
> beats me.

Well, he seldom has it all together.

> > Well, he has merely scratched the surface and his AI app is wrong
> > about muon lifetime in the laboratory.  Muon-electron "atoms" are
> > not formed by muons travelling at relativistic speeds and the
> > lifetime of the muon is 2.2 usec:
> >
> > https://www.quirkyscience.com/muonium/