More Denton: A new book (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, March 11, 2016, 15:52 (2969 days ago) @ dhw
edited by David Turell, Friday, March 11, 2016, 16:04


> dhw: I have hunted in vain for the word “pure”. The article says: “...an early discovery was that the quark-gluon plasma behaves more like a perfect fluid with small viscosity than like a gas, as many researchers had expected." With quarks as one of the building blocks of matter, how does this make a quark-gluon plasma into a “pure plasma of energy”?-I've shown you that atoms are considered the building blocks of matter. The substrate are all the energy particles, quarks, gluons, muons, electrons, photons, etc. They are pure energy whether the article states the word 'pure' or not. I've told you they are measured in electron volts, not weight as formed matter would be measured! It is understood they are pure energy as the basis of the construction of matter, both inextricably tied together in two layers, pure energy as the foundation of matter. The LHC brings out that foundation of particle energy.
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> dhw: Again - and understandably, since the whole concept is controversial - the word “pure” is not used anywhere in the quote. The fact that energy and matter can be separated does not mean they can exist without each other.-You have invented a controversy. A quark gluon plasma antedated the formation of matter in the model of how the universe became matter from the Big Bang.-http://press.web.cern.ch/backgrounders/heavy-ion-collisions-quark-gluon-plasma-and-quantum-chromodynamics-"For a few millionths of a second, shortly after the big bang, the universe was filled with an astonishingly hot, dense soup made of all kinds of particles moving at near light speed. This mixture was dominated by quarks - fundamental bits of matter - and by gluons, carriers of the strong force that normally “glue” quarks together into familiar protons and neutrons and other species. In those first evanescent moments of extreme temperature, however, quarks and gluons were bound only weakly, free to move on their own in what's called a quark-gluon plasma. (my bold)-"To recreate conditions similar to those of the very early universe, powerful accelerators make head-on collisions between massive ions, such as gold or lead nuclei. In these heavy-ion collisions the hundreds of protons and neutrons in two such nuclei smash into one another at energies of upwards of a few trillion electronvolts each. This forms a miniscule fireball in which everything “melts” into a quark-gluon plasma."-Energy bits of matter are not matter until they coalesce into atoms! It is a process from raw materials to finished product, matter.-> dhw; Maybe one day an LHC will be able to test your quark-gluon plasma for signs of consciousness. -Not mine, the cosmologist-theorists!-> 
> dhw;Teleology simply denotes purpose, not one person's idea of one particular purpose.-Agreed. I use it for explanation, do you?