Sparticles?

[Night-Mare]

I was watching this SBS science show a few years back.

There was a scientist, with a degree and all, standing in the middle of the screen with flying brains in the background.

I thought, yeah, science, brains.. Makes sence.

Then suddenly, the dumbest thing I have ever heard..
These are the exact words he said.
"Sparticles are smaller than particles, they are to determine the space in a particle"

Okay then.. isn't the space in a particle basicly a particle..
Apparently, according to MY science teacher, nothing can get smaller than a particle.
Because 'everything' is a form of particles.

Then the scientist said;
"There are sparticles out there, just we have no proof that they exist."
Please exlain your scientific knowledge, young scientist..

I kept watching throughout the show, to see if anything else unusual happened.
I couldn't stop laughing.

And yet, the show was legit.
It was not a comedy.
It was a proper, educational training video.

Pfft.. sciencists nowadays..
Will do anything to get attention.

[Lord-Zed]

Scientists know for the universe to end, yet we have no proof.

Same logic, different idea.

[HTID]

At 9/25/07 04:20 AM, Night-Mare wrote:

Pfft.. sciencists nowadays..
Will do anything to get attention.

Sparticles get my attention. Every time.

[Hornby]

lol wouldn't the space in paticle be as big as a particle, unless there was something in the particle taking up some of the space, lol that stupid scientist

[Nobodys-Hero]

what about string theory? aren't those whacky whacky strings smaller than particles?

[Night-Mare]

At 9/25/07 05:43 AM, Nobodys-Hero wrote: what about string theory? aren't those whacky whacky strings smaller than particles?

Oh those strings.. ;]

[EndGameOmega]

At 9/25/07 04:20 AM, Night-Mare wrote: I was watching this SBS science show a few years back.

There was a scientist, with a degree and all, standing in the middle of the screen with flying brains in the background.

I thought, yeah, science, brains.. Makes sence.

Then suddenly, the dumbest thing I have ever heard..

Much like your post is one of the dumbest rants I've heard? Well at lest today.

These are the exact words he said.
"Sparticles are smaller than particles, they are to determine the space in a particle"

Well that's not quite correct. Sparticles come about due to the extension of symmetry into the Lagrangian, this is called suppersymmetry.

Okay then.. isn't the space in a particle basicly a particle..

No. In reality there is no "inside" of a particle, there isn't even a physical structure to speak of.

Apparently, according to MY science teacher, nothing can get smaller than a particle.
Because 'everything' is a form of particles.

Then YOUR science teacher is an idiot. Well to be fair maybe your science teacher isn't an idiot, but he/she certainly doesn't know Quantum Mechanics. Anyway, no, everything isn't a particle, every thing is a wave. Each wave dose have a quantized packet of energy, mass, charge, color, etc... in it. It's this quantized nature which gives things there particle like properties.

Then the scientist said;
"There are sparticles out there, just we have no proof that they exist."
Please exlain your scientific knowledge, young scientist..

His reasoning is the major theories and models point to sparticles existing. We just don't or rather didn't have the accelerators needed to probe in high enough energy regions to see them. While his amount of certainty is incorrect (we aren't completely sure sparicles exist), it's extremely likely that they do.

I kept watching throughout the show, to see if anything else unusual happened.
I couldn't stop laughing.

Why? Because you don't understand something you think it's funny?

And yet, the show was legit.
It was not a comedy.
It was a proper, educational training video.

That's because sparticles are a legitimate concept in particle physics.

Pfft.. sciencists nowadays..
Will do anything to get attention.

Well it's nice to know your smarter then all the particle physics out there. Perhaps you could explain to me why exactly a sparticle can't exist despite the fact that suppersymmetry and the extended standard model require them to exist?

[Night-Mare]

At 9/25/07 06:05 AM, EndGameOmega wrote: Perhaps you could explain to me why exactly a sparticle can't exist despite the fact that suppersymmetry and the extended standard model require them to exist?

Go away..

[awesty]

How big is a particle?

[EndGameOmega]

At 9/25/07 06:10 AM, Night-Mare wrote:
Go away..

Wait a second; you make a rant about something you have obviously no clue about. Then some one comes along and tries to explain things to you and point out that you really don't know what you're taking about, and all you can say is "Go away"? Oh, right this is new grounds, specifically general. Why would I expect any one to have any intelligence or integrity here?

[Night-Mare]

At 9/25/07 06:12 AM, awesty wrote: How big is a particle?

Look in your pants.

[Night-Mare]

At 9/25/07 06:14 AM, EndGameOmega wrote: Oh, right this is new grounds, specifically general. Why would I expect any one to have any intelligence or integrity here?

Dead straight Mr.

Just so you know, I am actually intellegent, just I find alot of things amusing.