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gino_ss wrote:What if somebody stood in proximity to Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider when gold ions were run together at nearly the speed of light. Would that person be absorbed into the plasma of quarks and other subatomic particles and transferred to the parallel timeline?
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But since the heavy ions in RHIC collisions are so small, the actual impact of the speeding ions on each other is about the same as the impact of a mosquito hitting a screen door on a summer evening. And, RHIC collisions last only a few billionths of a second.
RHIC collisions may be super-fast and super-hot, which makes them interesting to physicists, but they're too small and too brief to be dangerous.
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gino_ss wrote:Thanks, Mark. I was 66 when I got serious about writing. My first published story was in Crossroads, a small horror print mag, circa 1996 .
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gino_ss wrote:Thanks, Valerie. Mark has several of my earlier stories on his Creator and the Catalyst website as well as a few he hasn't published yet. I'm a relative newcomer, having had my first story published in a small horror print zine in 1996. I was 65 at the time. My earliest influences were Ray Bradbury, J.G. Ballard (British sf writer) and Rod Serling of Twilight Zone fame. A lot of credit goes to Robert Moriyama, short story editor for Aphelion, and also to Mark for his constant encouragement.
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gino_ss wrote:Lester,
Yeah, I keep getting error messages when I try to type in the website. Just Google RHIC Physics of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and scroll down to heavy ion collisions.
Ancient history - I took a course on radiation safety at Brookhaven National Laboratories when I was in the Navy.
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