"N:dlzc D:aol T:com (dlzc)" wrote:

Dear Uncle Al:

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Dear Uncle Al:

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Dear Eric Gisse:
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The detection of neutrons from distant supernovae

COOL.

Cite? I have never heard of that!

TitanPoint may mean this...
URL:http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0405/0405006.pdf
(plenty more with Google Advanced, requiring the word "supernova" and
the
exact phrase "detection of neutrons")

The neutron is what is detected, in the decay/interaction of
*neutrinos*
from supernovae. With a halflife of 10 minutes, not many neutrons
would
survive from distant supernovae.

Or it might have been a boo-boo.

Or the OP was an even more loathsome spewing idiot that you are.

Thanks, Al. Coming from you, this is a compliment.

Hey
stupid, what is the nominal half-life of a neutron?

I think I said 10 minutes above, didn't I? Are you due for a dipstick
check?

Neutron half-life is about 885.6 seconds, idiot. Pull your thumb out
when you spew information.

URL:http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu...proton.html#c3
QUOTE
A free neutron will decay with a half-life of about 10.3 minutes
END QUOTE

I don't know where your information comes from, but it is apparently not
correct.

http://pdg.lbl.gov/
[snip]

Idiot. 14.76 minutes.

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"Ken S. Tucker" wrote:

Uncle Al wrote in message ...

Neutron half-life is about 885.6 seconds,

Relatively to whom?, You of course.

Put a neutron in a powerful g-field or
something similiar, inside a nucleus
(think super-gravity) and the 1/2 life
gets extended.

Likely the neutron is stabilized from
decay by the Strong Force aside from
time dilation effects.
Ken

Idiot. Interstellar space is Minkowski. Tell us how many gees you
would need to extend a 14.76 *minute* half-life to 100 million years.

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Dear Uncle Al:

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"N:dlzc D:aol T:com (dlzc)" wrote:

Dear Uncle Al:

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"N:dlzc D:aol T:com (dlzc)" wrote:

Dear Uncle Al:

"Uncle Al" wrote in message
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"N:dlzc D:aol T:com (dlzc)" wrote:

Dear Eric Gisse:
"Eric Gisse" wrote in message
om...
(Titan Point) wrote in message
. com...
[snip]

The detection of neutrons from distant supernovae

COOL.

Cite? I have never heard of that!

TitanPoint may mean this...
URL:http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0405/0405006.pdf
(plenty more with Google Advanced, requiring the word "supernova"
and
the
exact phrase "detection of neutrons")

The neutron is what is detected, in the decay/interaction of
*neutrinos*
from supernovae. With a halflife of 10 minutes, not many neutrons
would
survive from distant supernovae.

Or it might have been a boo-boo.

Or the OP was an even more loathsome spewing idiot that you are.

Thanks, Al. Coming from you, this is a compliment.

Hey
stupid, what is the nominal half-life of a neutron?

I think I said 10 minutes above, didn't I? Are you due for a
dipstick
check?

Neutron half-life is about 885.6 seconds, idiot. Pull your thumb out
when you spew information.

URL:http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu...proton.html#c3
QUOTE
A free neutron will decay with a half-life of about 10.3 minutes
END QUOTE

I don't know where your information comes from, but it is apparently not
correct.

http://pdg.lbl.gov/
[snip]

Idiot. 14.76 minutes.

You should *not* get your information from idiots, Uncle Al.

Your citation points to a different number for the lifespan of the neutron,
the "mean life", and a host of values are presented:
URL:http://pdg.lbl.gov/2004/listings/bxxxcomb.html
... choosing the entry for neutrons:
"PostScript PDF (17 pages) n"
QUOTE
Mean life
[...snip...]
885.7 +/- 0.8
886.8 +/- 1.2
885.4 +/- 0.9
889.2 +/- 3.0
882.6 +/- 2.7
888.4 +/- 3.1
887.6 +/- 3.0
891 +/- 9
888.4 +/- 2.9
893.6 +/- 3.8
878 +/- 27
877 +/- 10
876 +/- 10
903 +/- 13
937 +/- 18
875 +/- 95
881 +/- 8
END QUOTE

Note that the "mean life" and the "half life" can be mathematically
correlated.

So Uncle Al, who is the spewing idiot? *You* stated "half life", but
quoted figures for "mean life".

I think you need another beer... I hope this doesn't mean your eotvos
project has been sidetracked?

David A. Smith

Uncle Al wrote in message ...
"Ken S. Tucker" wrote:

Uncle Al wrote in message ...

Neutron half-life is about 885.6 seconds,

Relatively to whom?, You of course.

Put a neutron in a powerful g-field or
something similiar, inside a nucleus
(think super-gravity) and the 1/2 life
gets extended.

Likely the neutron is stabilized from
decay by the Strong Force aside from
time dilation effects.
Ken

Idiot. Interstellar space is Minkowski. Tell us how many gees you
would need to extend a 14.76 *minute* half-life to 100 million years.

Aunt Alice,
Ref, G_uv =k*T_uv
where T_uv has a density of billions of tons/cubic inch.
Care to use your abacus to determine time dilation
in that nuclear density?
I do not know if the dilation is sufficient to
impede the decay of the neutron in that density
field, do you?

Ken S. Tucker

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