This however was achieved by quantum mechanics around 100 years ago. It's a term used early on when people couldn't reconcile the two types of behaviours. What you suggest has absolutely no basis.Īlso wave particle duality isn't a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics. It's what actual mathematical models accurately describe reality. Physics isn't what we like to imagine things as. It's worth pointing out that this is basically entirely crackpot. Knots, vortices, or some strange cousin thereof seem visually compelling because they can be loose while still preserving their characteristics, and when tightened to a point can be localized here or there but not everywhere with equal probability. Is there a way to work the Dirac equation and some spinor magic to get a rigorous sense of how a tau particle or muon can decay into an electron? Specifically, is there any property other than mass that these particles differ from each other in, and does this hint at any kind of underlying structure that might apply more generally to this whole three generations of matter situation? I’d love to learn some math to supplement and inform this intuitive view. Not saying that in a literal sense, but just in the sense that electrons are things which seem to have a certain intrinsic tangledness or vortexness to them. The way I imagine this intuitively is something along the lines of Lord Kelvin’s old knots-in-the-ether picture. Retrieved May 5, 2016.Do you know where I can read more about how this decay via weak interaction works? I understand that electrons don’t decay on their own since they have charge, and no lower mass negatively charged particle to decay into (but bring a positron around and you can make photons since the net charge becomes zero). Identifying Interesting Particle Physics Events at LEP. The W boson will exist for 3x10 –25 seconds, before it decays into an electron and an electron antineutrino, a muon and a muon antineutrino, or a down quark and an up antiquark. However, a single tauon decays differently than a tauon and an antitauon.Ī τ – will quickly decay into a tau neutrino and a W boson. The two tauons then decay into an electron and a positron or a muon and an antimuon, and four of the various neutrinos. τ + and τ – can be formed by an electron- positron (antielectron) pair combining. When a single tauon decays, it is the only lepton that can decay into hadrons (things made of quarks). Also, τ + and τ – can annihilate each other in a form of decay. Tauons themselves are unstable, and can decay. Since antimatter has the opposite of charge of regular matter, anti-tauons have a charge of +1, and can be written as τ +. Tau have a charge of -1, and can be written as τ –. Like the other two basic leptons, tauons have a neutrino named after them (the tau neutrino). However, they are very important in the decay of subatomic matter. Since they only live for 2.9x10 –13 seconds, they do not have a significant role in the regular world. This is because they have about 3,500 times as much mass as electrons, and about 17 times as much mass as muons. Tau leptons can be thought of as very heavy electrons, as they are both leptons.
This means that they are believed to be so small that they can not be divided any more. Tau (τ) leptons (aka tauons, tau particle) are one of the very small elementary particles.
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