Chapter 3: The Weak Nuclear Force
From Wikipedia, "It is responsible for the radioactive decay of subatomic particles and initiates the process known as hydrogen fusion in stars. Weak interactions affect all known fermions; that is, particles whose spin (a property of all particles) is a half-integer."(protons have a spin of 1)
In laymans terms this means the weak interaction or weak nuclear force causes the decay of all fermions excluding the proton, but including the neutron and electron and others. I didn't know that protons didn't decay. Free neutrons apparently take 15 minutes to decay according to An Introduction to Nuclear Physics. Cottingham & Greenwood (1986, 2001), p.28.
But in the meantime we're having an identity crisis.. what's a proton? what's a neutron? From Wikipedia, "The proton is also stable by itself. Free protons are emitted directly in some rare types of radioactive decay, and result from the decay of free neutrons from other radioactivity. They soon pick up an electron and become neutral hydrogen, which may then react chemically. Free protons may exist in plasmas or in cosmic rays in vacuum."
So a proton can be a weak interaction result of a neutron decaying in some sense. Weathering, entropy change, hmmm... So if a gluon is damn well near a dollar and protons & neutrons are trade bases of some form of currency, the weak nuclear force would decay neutrons but stop when/if it reached a proton. And if taxation were the agent of weak nuclear interaction, would this mean the natural state of all free corporations is a non-profit striving to get out! I think so. I guess I kind of knew that because I told myself, but if I were on a corporate board the first thing I would do would be to get rid of stockholders and not drive for profits, just drive for service and a living wage. Or better yet! have the company employees control the stock! So with that idea, the one idea worth anything here, that the weak nuclear force is taxation I ask again what is a proton and neutron? A non-profit ecosystem? A government? A woman? Seriously a proton could be a female, though this slides the metaphor out of the societal realm and into the personal one. Hm, I would have to say...
From Wikipedia, "It is responsible for the radioactive decay of subatomic particles and initiates the process known as hydrogen fusion in stars. Weak interactions affect all known fermions; that is, particles whose spin (a property of all particles) is a half-integer."(protons have a spin of 1)
In laymans terms this means the weak interaction or weak nuclear force causes the decay of all fermions excluding the proton, but including the neutron and electron and others. I didn't know that protons didn't decay. Free neutrons apparently take 15 minutes to decay according to An Introduction to Nuclear Physics. Cottingham & Greenwood (1986, 2001), p.28.
But in the meantime we're having an identity crisis.. what's a proton? what's a neutron? From Wikipedia, "The proton is also stable by itself. Free protons are emitted directly in some rare types of radioactive decay, and result from the decay of free neutrons from other radioactivity. They soon pick up an electron and become neutral hydrogen, which may then react chemically. Free protons may exist in plasmas or in cosmic rays in vacuum."
So a proton can be a weak interaction result of a neutron decaying in some sense. Weathering, entropy change, hmmm... So if a gluon is damn well near a dollar and protons & neutrons are trade bases of some form of currency, the weak nuclear force would decay neutrons but stop when/if it reached a proton. And if taxation were the agent of weak nuclear interaction, would this mean the natural state of all free corporations is a non-profit striving to get out! I think so. I guess I kind of knew that because I told myself, but if I were on a corporate board the first thing I would do would be to get rid of stockholders and not drive for profits, just drive for service and a living wage. Or better yet! have the company employees control the stock! So with that idea, the one idea worth anything here, that the weak nuclear force is taxation I ask again what is a proton and neutron? A non-profit ecosystem? A government? A woman? Seriously a proton could be a female, though this slides the metaphor out of the societal realm and into the personal one. Hm, I would have to say...
