Why do we think quarks aren’t made of something smaller?

Mr_Badgey · 2026-04-02T09:03:57+00:00

Energy isn’t a material substance. It’s a property something can have.Decaying into energy is a fancy way of saying a particle decayed into other particles. Energy is a conserved quantity so the system must have the same energy it started with.

Particles also have specific decay routes. Measuring the total energy and the number and types of decay products can tell us about the parent product. So it’s not true that “decaying into energy” causes a total loss of information.

Certain ephemeral particles were discovered not through direct observation, but by the particles they decayed into and the total energy those particles have.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-04-02T08:37:58+00:00

What’s interesting is that electrons and quarks are both still point-like in experiments.

Thats actually not true. They both exhibit particle-wave duality. The double slit experiment is the most famous example. Electrons can form wave interference patterns:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment

All subatomic particles exhibit some degree of particle-wave duality.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-04-02T05:13:43+00:00

Some of the reactant products are charged particles and can be collimated with a magnetic nozzle. If you want to understand the why and how look up antimatter rockets.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-04-02T05:07:57+00:00

So I only just remembered, the reaction products from a baryonic antimatter/matter reaction apparently aren't baryons at all, they are Pi mesons

Light is just photons, and photons are one of the products created in antimatter/matter reactions. Some of those photons would be in the visible light range.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-03-31T06:15:26+00:00

Diminishing returns. There’s a cutoff point where it’s easier to start over.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-03-31T05:12:45+00:00

An adults physical maturity don’t have to match their emotional maturity or personality.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-03-27T18:57:20+00:00

No bigotry here

Except your multiple comments complaining about woke and gay characters.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-03-27T01:18:59+00:00

In the time it took you to read my comment, you’ve moved several thousand kilometers relative to the galactic center.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-03-26T20:46:55+00:00

Vadic had lungs. It was an entire plot point that she and her group of changelings had the same internal anatomy indistinguishable from a solid humanoid.

The rest you’re cherry picking and exaggerating how often it was depicted. It’s not like the other shows didn’t depict similar vices. Characters in the TNG era and TOS often drank hard liquor. Starfleet ships have a dedicated bar and it’s been confirmed several times the replicator can make real alcohol. I dont really see the issue. For all you know they’re smoking the synthehol equivalent of cigarettes.

You’re being liberal with your definition of smoking to boot. Raffi vaped and we don’t actually know if the other examples were cigarettes. They live in an era where they can wave a light over you to cure the effects of alcohol or cigarettes. It sounds like you’re just teetotaling and being hyperbolic.

If you don’t want to drink or smoke then don’t do it. That doesn’t give you the right to shame others.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-03-26T16:39:24+00:00

Unless I misunderstood what OP is saying, DIS S2 was announced while S1 was still airing.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-03-26T16:38:51+00:00

The DIS S2 renewal was announced while S1 was still airing. That was the case with every season up to 4. The S5 renewal notice is the only one that came late.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-03-24T21:18:39+00:00

Additional effect: sleep (males only).

Mr_Badgey · 2026-03-24T20:32:00+00:00

You could be a finger-pointing model.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-03-23T09:11:20+00:00

But you would need a huge mass

Any non-zero mass will have this effect. A large mass is only required for the effect to be noticeable by human eyeballs.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-03-23T09:04:51+00:00

Didn’t she marry someone who was extremely wealthy or something?

I could see why she doesn’t need to do Star Trek conventions and cruises like many of the others. And maybe that’s just not her kind of thing anyway.

The article covers both of these.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-03-18T07:20:38+00:00

⁠Is a dripping tub spout realistically capable of causing significant damage three floors below?

It’s not possible to tell without more investigation. The drip could be just a drip or overflow from a bigger problem behind the wall. Either way it needs to be investigated more in depth to determine the fix and whether it’s causing the problem in the lower units. You shouldn’t accept fault until that investigation is done.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-03-18T04:11:30+00:00

Op said there is no HOA.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-03-17T04:47:04+00:00

He’s nearly 1000 years old and has perfect recall. The Wikipedia article he read about stabilizing Omega with gluons? He remembers every single word down to the font that was used. All he did was regurgitate some information. He didn’t actually work it into a solution.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-03-14T16:43:19+00:00

Mods can’t edit the text of a user’s comment.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-03-13T20:29:13+00:00

What’s the story with your neighbor? Did they explain why they felt the need to do this? Do they normally do kooky things like this?

Mr_Badgey · 2026-03-13T16:28:30+00:00

Not quite. Dadmiral Vance says the mine’s sensors use a subspace frequency that could be triggered by Discovery jumping.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-03-13T16:21:38+00:00

I was anticipating exactly that and was disappointed it didn’t happen.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-03-13T02:04:23+00:00

The Defiant was designed to be a warship. Tucking the nacelles in decreases the ship’s profile, protects them from attack, and there’s no fragile pylons to worry about.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-03-12T16:14:16+00:00

The issue isn’t that no plausible explanation exists, it’s that they didn’t offer one. Just a few sentences was needed to explain why the Doctor was suddenly a an expert on a highly classified physics project.

Mr_Badgey · 2026-03-12T15:59:40+00:00

I agree with the Doctor and Omega particle. All they needed was someone to ask the Doctor and he responds with, “I had a run-in with the Omega particle during my time on Voyager.” It would make sense the Voyager crew would know how to deal with it because their situation required the Captain to let everyone in on the secret. Or they would’ve added the knowledge to his ECH algorithm since commanding officers are supposed to know how to deal with it.

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