Re:Heaviest element yet detected in an exoplanet atmosphere
by c1ccccc1 on Thursday October 13, 2022 @11:04PM
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Sounds like something we could check empirically. Some cosmic rays are protons from outside of the solar system. We could capture those and compare them with local protons to see if they're actually the same kind of particle. (We can check if two particles are the same kind or not by seeing what happens if we try to put them in the same place. If they're both protons, they should refuse to be put into the same state due to the Pauli exclusion principle.) As far as I know the experiment hasn't actually been done, though.
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Re:Heaviest element yet detected in an exoplanet atmosphere
by ianai on Thursday October 13, 2022 @11:12PM
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Those cosmic rays are an absolute gold mine of particle physics potential. Some of them easily exceed any accelerator we could build without going solar system scale.
Edit-the best I can think is have every satellite built with a particle detector as a standard. No idea if those could be scaled down.
Edit2-seems doubtful.