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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Overmod Quark is the sound certain cheeses make when they try to break the lightspeed barrier. A tachyon (spelling correct) doesn't make any noise because it goes through the wall before it approaches it. You detect them to figure out how fast your engine is turning. An electron is, in fact, several times smaller than a proton... mass-wise over 1800 times smaller. Size-wise, you can't tell -- the indeterminacy of measurement is far greater than the objective (statistical) size of the electron and hence no one has observed one directly. Even AFMs show the electron shell as a haze...but a proportionally correct haze! [/quote] quark (kwoork,kwark) n any group of six elementary particles having electric charges of a magnitude one-third or two-thirds that of the electron, regarded as constituents of all haldrons (any elementary particle that interacts with other particles). The cheese thing is a secondary definition not related to this thread. A tachyon is a third class of particles that travel only at speeds exceeding that of light-A HAH!!! This loco was going the speed limit (of light)- not exceeding it! And I meant could you 'see' the light emitting from the ditch lights :O) OK-I'm in WAY over my head-somebody help me!!
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