Anti Helium

[Jan van Leyden]

An anti-matter particle is still just a particle. It obeys normal physical laws of time and space. They aren't special, except insofar as they are rare around here.

A singularity is a place where Einsteinian Relativity has a mathematical singularity - where one divides by zero, and the laws of time and space have a snort of whiskey and do a nice little.

The two are, simply put, not alike, no matter what scale you're talking on.

Hey, are you trying to bring this fun thread back to seriousness?

BTW a singularity is nothing but a singular fact or event, you seem to be talking about gravitational singularities of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity or the Penrose-Hawking singularity theorem.

And if you describe the behaviour of a sample (volume) of He containing one atom of anti-He, you would notice a singular event caused by the annihilation of said anti-He and one He atom. Your thermodynamics equations don't have you prepared for this event, you wouldn't be able to describe it with this mathematical apparatus. The gamma radiation produced by this event and the resultant diminished mass are singularities - although not mathematical ones.

 

[Wik]

Whoa. This thread just got very, VERY heavy. All this anti-helium stuff just gives me a sinking feeling.

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(All I know is that if you punch a noble gas in the face.... it doesn't react. Beyond that, I'm lost.)

 

[El Mahdi]

I agree Wik. This thread seems to be ballooning out of control.

 

[Umbran]

Your thermodynamics equations don't have you prepared for this event

Given that thermodynamics describes the behavior of statistically relevant ensembles, not individual events, this is kind of like saying my bird feeder doesn't work well for boiling an egg. Duh!

My quantum chromodynamics equations have me well-prepared for the event you describe, though.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

... this is kind of like saying my bird feeder doesn't work well for boiling an egg. Duh!

Actually, I've found that installing microwave lasers on your birdfeeder will help with this particular shortcoming. The trick is to fry the bird and boil its eggs in one shot.

Two birds with one stone, if you will.
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[Scott DeWar]

quasi-therml chromo dynamic quarks-wha?

 

[Jan van Leyden]

Given that thermodynamics describes the behavior of statistically relevant ensembles, not individual events, this is kind of like saying my bird feeder doesn't work well for boiling an egg. Duh!

Which supports my argument of the dependability of scale...

My quantum chromodynamics equations have me well-prepared for the event you describe, though.

Wow, you're starting the QCD calculations for a sample of He plus one anti-HE? This earns you my deep respect, sir!

(over and out before this thread becomes ugly)

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

quasi-therml chromo dynamic quarks-wha?

Aflac!

 

[Scott DeWar]

thats quacks, not quarks.

 

[Umbran]

thats quacks, not quarks.

While the typical waterfowl are just ducky, particle physicists prefer penguins.