To Bilge,

Helical wave particles which travel through the atmosphere are slowed down
at a slower rate than those that are brought to a sudden stop. Consequently
it takes them a longer time before they travel at approximately .6c at which
point they decay into linear particles.

All of the above has nothing to do with their frame of reference.

As for your frame of reference Bilge, none are so blind as those who do not
want to see.

Len.
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"Bilge" wrote in message
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Len Gaasenbeek:

"In summary, muons that travel through the atmosphere last longer than
muons
that have been stopped in a detector, so that their decay times at rest
can
be recorded, because muons are helical wave electrons which rapidly
decay
into ordinary electrons when they are slowed down to the point where
they no
longer travel at a relativistic speed.


In other words, muons are [particles] which decay more slowly in
the frame in which they are moving relativistically. Precisely how
does this differ from time dilation in special relativity apart
from adding the irrelevant fluff about "helical wave" to particles?
I could just as easily write the same sentence you wrote using
"brown rectangular burfl particles".


Consequently, fast moving particles do not age at a slower rate
than particles that are at rest as Rossi and Hall would have us
believe."

That's odd. You just contradicted the sentence immediately preceeding
this one. What's the deal?

In other words, you can't study the lifespan of a cat if your
experimental
procedure requires you to kill it first before you can reliably measure
whether it is alive or dead.

Why not? Cats decay when they die, just like muons. The only
difference is that muons can't be embalmed.

In the middle ages, most women who were accused of being a witch,
confessed their guilt.

I give up. What did witches in the middle ages use muons for?
(I am assuming they must have used them for something or else
this makes less sense the first part.)

If you are tortured long enough anything is better than to have to
endure
more pain, even the death penalty, as it will put you out of your misery
without having to commit suicide. At least this way you will be a
martyr
who died for a cause rather than a murderer.

Apart from not being very uplifting oe optimistic, I seem to
be missing the point of how this fits in to a newsgroup in
the sci.physics.* hierarchy.

There but for the grace of God go I, but that is another subject.

It was another subject several sentences ago.