99% nothing.

The_Nice_Guy · Post by **The_Nice_Guy** » 2003-03-13 11:37am

Well, the most we can say is that from their wavefunctions, the probability of the quarks being very close to each other is very high.

Which is just another roundabout way of saying that there's no space between them.

As for space and matter interaction, remember we're talking about two different types of matter. There's matter at the subatomic levels, and bulk matter. They behave differently, though subatomic matter starts to behave like bulk matter as it increases in energy/mass(correspondence principle).

The Nice Guy

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-03-13 11:46am

The_Nice_Guy wrote:Well, the most we can say is that from their wavefunctions, the probability of the quarks being very close to each other is very high.

If you're going to talk wave functions, you simply look at the phase of each wave. Any time the phases are equal, the wave functions overlap.

SoX · Post by **SoX** » 2003-03-13 01:41pm

Unless you're a physicist (which I'm seriously doubting based on your posts), please refrain from giving the impression that you are.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary:
Physicist: a person skilled or qualified in physics.
I have an AS-Level (about to gain full A-Level) in physics, therefore i am a physicist. So ner.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-03-13 02:22pm

SoX wrote:
Unless you're a physicist (which I'm seriously doubting based on your posts), please refrain from giving the impression that you are.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary:
Physicist: a person skilled or qualified in physics.
I have an AS-Level (about to gain full A-Level) in physics, therefore i am a physicist. So ner.

And what is that, exactly? As far as I know, A-Levels in the UK (I'm assuming that's where you are) are like high school in the US. Please explain your qualifications in more detail.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-03-13 02:46pm

Well, bearing in mind we've never been educated in the US we can only make assumptions. Basically, at 16, we have GCSE exams, we take an average of about 10 of these. These range from 2 science GCSE's which are biology,physics,and chemistry, i know that's 3, but it USED to be triple awward science but got downgraded for some reason in our year and subsequent years. After GCSE's we go to colloege and do A levels, a two year course in your chosen subject, usually far more in depth than GCSE's. Recently, the british government in their infinite wisdom decided to increase variation by giving us twice as many tests, to get "AS levels". These are supposed to show more variation in skills of the student, however everyone just continues to do an "a2 level" the equivalent of an A level.
In short, the system is retarded and they're getting rid of it not long after we leave.
Tony (Sox) has completed his first year of his physics course (plus awards in Chemistry, maths, and...i cant remember the other one)
That's as clear as i can make it for the time being.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-03-13 02:48pm

i also meant to add "they range from double science award (rant about science) to art, and even <shudders> P.E. We're required to take one foreign language, double english, and maths.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-03-13 02:51pm

Then by Sox's reasoning, I'm also a physicist, since I'm in my second year of my university curriculum with a declared physics major. Generally, a physicist refers to someone who works in the field of physics.

EDIT: Well, I'm more like first-and-a-half year. I'm in freshman-level physics courses but sophomore and junior level maths.

SoX · Post by **SoX** » 2003-03-13 03:14pm

Then by Sox's reasoning, I'm also a physicist

yes, that is correct. well done.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-03-13 03:16pm

Durandal wrote:Then by Sox's reasoning, I'm also a physicist, since I'm in my second year of my university curriculum with a declared physics major. Generally, a physicist refers to someone who works in the field of physics.

EDIT: Well, I'm more like first-and-a-half year. I'm in freshman-level physics courses but sophomore and junior level maths.

we'll you're a physicist in my view.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-03-13 03:37pm

I'm a physics student, but whatever.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-03-13 04:10pm

durandel, do people call you "troy" alot?

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-03-13 04:32pm

Rye wrote:durandel, do people call you "troy" alot?

Um ... no. Why would they?

Sriad · Post by **Sriad** » 2003-03-14 05:24pm

Durandal wrote:
The needle you're sticking through yourself would have to be impossibly small and/or fast; if it's made out of normal matter it will have an effect on the rest of your particles in the time that it's hanging around. You could probably have a needle that would leave no trace on your body, your cells would just heal around it when it left. Now that I think about it, speed would be a bad thing for this needle to have, it means that any particles it "bumped" into would bump into other particles that much harder.
As I said before, they're called neutrinos. They have a mean free path of 6000 lightyears. In other words, they'll go 6000 lightyears, on average, without interacting with any other particle.

Oops, you're right of course; neutrinos work. I was thinking of conventional matter... After all, you'd be hard pressed to make a needle out of neutrinos.

edited to fix quotes

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-03-14 05:26pm

Sriad wrote:Oops, you're right of course; neutrinos work. I was thinking of conventional matter... After all, you'd be hard pressed to make a needle out of neutrinos.

I guess you could have a beam of them; that might qualify. But neutrinos show that you can stick something through the human body and have it not interact with anything at all.