Jumbuck53 Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 Hello everyone and thank you for accepting me into your Group. My question is short but probably quite complicated..... Do Quarks (or Hadrons) contain enough energy to excite a current in a coil? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematic Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 Question is too vague. Quarks are particles - what do you mean by containing energy? Hadrons are quark comibinations - same question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Energy isn't the main issue, it's charge. A single charge can be detected by a superconducting coil, properly configured (i.e. a SQUID). http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2013/09/nanoscale-squid-can-measure-single-electron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jumbuck53 Posted May 31, 2015 Author Share Posted May 31, 2015 Thank you to everyone who read my question and to those who replied. I don't seem to have explained my question sufficiently so I will try to explain where I'm coming from. For as long as I can remember I was told there is enough energy in a vacuum in a small cube to power the world for a day (or something similar). I have often pondered how it might be possible to utilize this energy to power even a single LED. I recently read that Quarks do in fact have a charge so I wondered if it would be possible for this tiny charge to excite even a very low current in a coil mounted inside the cube and take that current either magnetically or coil to coil outside the cube and measure it? I apologize for my vague question and can only justify myself by saying I only completed Year 11 (in 1969) and have in recent years started to be interested in Quantum Physics and "Free Energy". As a Reiki Master I am able to feel/receive energy, which I'm told comes from "The Field" and use it to help heal people and often contemplated Life, The Universe and Everything. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.....hehehe Many Thanks. Peter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Thank you to everyone who read my question and to those who replied. I don't seem to have explained my question sufficiently so I will try to explain where I'm coming from. For as long as I can remember I was told there is enough energy in a vacuum in a small cube to power the world for a day (or something similar). I have often pondered how it might be possible to utilize this energy to power even a single LED. I recently read that Quarks do in fact have a charge so I wondered if it would be possible for this tiny charge to excite even a very low current in a coil mounted inside the cube and take that current either magnetically or coil to coil outside the cube and measure it? I apologize for my vague question and can only justify myself by saying I only completed Year 11 (in 1969) and have in recent years started to be interested in Quantum Physics and "Free Energy". There is no free energy. The vacuum energy (or zero-point energy) is not something that can be harnessed. What matters is the difference in energy between the vacuum state and some other state (e.g. a coil in the vacuum means it's not a vacuum anymore), and this has been done. It's called the Casimir effect — a pair of conducting plates separated by a small distance will show an attraction — and the energy involved is tiny. It's also not free. You have to do work Put energy in) to assemble the system. Also, the behavior of quarks includes something called asymptotic freedom. Pulling them apart requires the input of energy, and their attraction gets bigger as you separate them. Before you could pull them apart, you will add enough energy to form more quarks and antiquarks. The end result is that nobody has seen a bare quark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematic Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Quarks don't exist in isolation. The smallest stable charged particles are protons and electrons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imatfaal Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Quarks don't exist in isolation. The smallest stable charged particles are protons and electrons. hmm - not sure what smallest really means in this context. But the muon, the tau, and W bosons are all fundamental and charged; they are quite heavy though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematic Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 hmm - not sure what smallest really means in this context. But the muon, the tau, and W bosons are all fundamental and charged; they are quite heavy though. Stable - muon, tau, and W bosons are not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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