Freedom of Science

Collision is never about “particles” or “points”. Two points cannot collide, they are points. What collides are lines:

What collides is always fluid. Consider the apparent collision of two cookies:¹

The debris will be proportional to the speed of the fluid, i.e. the line:

The speed is part of the experiment. What collides is not the cookies but the fluid.

What kind of information the post-collision debris can reveal? Since what collides is fluid, the debris is proportional to the flux.

Case A: A cookie falling to the floor will crumble.

Case B: Two cookies moving in vacuum 200 miles a second will melt.

Debris A and Debris B will give different information and the information will be defined by the line, i.e. speed, not by cookies.

Corrolary: No collision can produce “the fundamental building blocks of matter.”

Any physicist who claim to observe fundamental building blocks of matter in some debris is perpetuating a marketing mythology.

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1. Referenced here. [↩]

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