Prton Radius Puzzle and possible MOND
Posted on 28 Aug 2016 @ 11:36pm by Commander Allyndra illm Warraquim
Sorry everyone, but I was reading an interesting article on a phenomenon known as the Proton Radius Puzzle.
I am not going to go into detail but the gist is that when you measure the radius of a simple hydrogen atom (a single proton) one can determine the radius. What happened is when the electron is substituted with a muon (a lepton with -1 charge 1/2 spin) which is much more massive then an electron and measure the proton radius it is smaller.
There is then some indication then that the weak nuclear force and gravity are related (like electricty and magnetism).
Okay that is the background. What this article was indicating was that gravity on a small scale is stronger. That is gravity is not constant.
Some might remember a small introduction article in our Impulse I wrote about MOND or MOdified Newtonian Dynamics. MOND is one theory put out to explain certain oddities in galactic scale structures. Basically it states that over very large distances that gravity is not the same but weakens.
So gravity might not be as constant as once thought, it weakens over very large distances and strengthens in very small (Planck length) distances.
Sorry, if I bored everyone but a science ship and me being a science geek and all thought I would share.
Marilyn
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