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In particle physics if you take a "elementary particle" and collide it with another specific elementary particle it produces a set of elementary particles, but if you take those same two particles and increase their speed or the amount of energy behind them they become productive and produce more particles.
I have found this phenomena quoted in books but no actual name given to it.
Examples : "When you smash elementary particles together you don't destroy them you just create more particles. It's like nothing you've ever known. Imagine you have a strawberry and decide to smash it into another strawberry. You don't get squished strawberries, you get a whole fruit salad, and sometimes the pieces of fruit are bigger than the strawberry you started with."
"Finkelstein wrote it's as if we fling two clocks together and they shatter and instead of out of them come flying springs and gears but more clocks, with some of them as large as the originals."
Is there a real name for this phenomena or principle in physics?
I like to think of it as the "clock shatter principle"
You could even call it something unique like "venuthian creative principle"
It seems to contradict our current understanding of the composition of particles, the fact that there are more quarks coming out of particles than there should be.
I have found this phenomena quoted in books but no actual name given to it.
Examples : "When you smash elementary particles together you don't destroy them you just create more particles. It's like nothing you've ever known. Imagine you have a strawberry and decide to smash it into another strawberry. You don't get squished strawberries, you get a whole fruit salad, and sometimes the pieces of fruit are bigger than the strawberry you started with."
"Finkelstein wrote it's as if we fling two clocks together and they shatter and instead of out of them come flying springs and gears but more clocks, with some of them as large as the originals."
Is there a real name for this phenomena or principle in physics?
I like to think of it as the "clock shatter principle"
You could even call it something unique like "venuthian creative principle"
It seems to contradict our current understanding of the composition of particles, the fact that there are more quarks coming out of particles than there should be.