Re: Could the 'missing dimensions' be quarks?

Posted by rtharbaugh on September 13, 2003 at 17:47:51:

In Reply to: Re: Could the 'missing dimensions' be quarks? posted by rickww on September 13, 2003 at 10:04:55:

rickww

I'm not sure if quarks can be altered directly by photons. For one thing, photons we can create have much longer wavelengths than the confinement volume of quarks, so the quarks would "float" on any photon we sent past them like a cork on an ocean. No amount of churning of ocean waves can reduce a cork, you see, because the cork is so much smaller than the waves.

What would be needed would be waves on the order of the size of the confinement, which would be wavelengths smaller than a proton or neutron. Even then, there is a problem with the way quarks seem to be stuck together. I have read that they are very free to move around within the volume they occupy, but it takes huge energies to remove them from confinement. Most waves that would be the right size to affect them would just make them race around within the partical.

But I don't want to be negative. In theory what you propose is not impossible, but what frequencies and energies could effect the job, and how do we produce them?

Thanks,

Richard.

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