Matt Stassler is always worth a read.
Time's short, so I shall probably have to take it a bit at a time. Couple of questions from the first one to start with.
"Mass Energy of Particle 1 = Mass Energy of Particle 2 + Motion Energy of Particle 2"
Does the Motion Energy of particle 2 come from the action of decay?
"Since motion energy is positive, particle 2 must have mass energy less than or equal to the mass energy of particle 1."
“Less than” seems OK, but how could energy/momentum be conserved if mass energy of 1 = mass energy of 2, but only 2 has motion energy?
I suspect there will be lots more questions, but let’s get these out of the way
Finally one of you has picked up on the issue ... now lets go back to our Higgs discussion.
In all our classic physics we killed the idea of absolute space because we realised we can only talk about relative terms of things.
But our relativistic mass as proposed by the Higgs mechanism gives us an absolute reference for the rise of relativistic mass. We are saying that relativistic mass arises from the relative movement of mass in this universe from the Higgs ocean or in the Higgs field whichever way you like to look at it.
So the higgs field or higgs ocean is an absolute reference frame and the question that opens up is that frame stationary?
We have ourself a new bucket argument (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_argument)
See there is a problem if the higgs ocean or higgs field is itself rotating for example it would be passing thru our matter and what would have a consequence.
We have a field we understand and study to look at what would happen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating_magnetic_fieldThe second issue is not just the issue of relative motion of decay but what actually is decay. The bottom of that question is are virtual particles actually real because decay of a real thing has implications, if particles are truely virtual then like a rainbow they can simply disolve but reality is a bit more tricky.
The corollary to those 2 questions can be bound in what Bill S asked why do particles motion behave the way they do when they decay. Think for example how a comet breaks up in space and compare that to particle decay.
Here is Matts answer
http://profmattstrassler.com/articles-an...cles-decay-why/Bonus points if you spot the problem :-)
