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Taintless Metals asked in Science & MathematicsPhysics · 5 years ago

Question about pear shaped nuclei recently discovered originally by Cern but now validated in a later study.?

Could this nuclei be used to navigate unknown systems in the universe? Ill pose this hypothetical situation so as to help you understand what I'm asking. Say we find a way to not only open and control a "wormhole" and said wormhole is indeed a method of "transportation" could the fact that this nuclei stays in one position allow us to actually calculate were you have been transported to? Like a better north star if you would?

source site if needed

http://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-just-discov...

Update:

The nuclei always points the same direction, the direction of time possibly, could you not use the location of the stars around you and orientation in conjunction with this nuclei to give yourself a location. Note that the entire wormhole thing was just a hypothetical situation and not in any way related to the nuclei in question but was only meant to give a situation where you would need a way to calculate where you were in the galaxy because you wouldnt have a point of origin to work from.

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  • Iridflare
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    It's an interesting question! It's not clear to me what the phrase "these nuclei literally point towards a direction in space" means - it could mean that all the nuclei point in the same direction like a compass needle, but it could simply mean that, unlike a spherical nucleus, a pear shaped one points in a direction. None of the other articles I've read mention this "directionality" so I'm leaning towards the latter interpretation. How time gets brought into things is beyond me!

  • quantumclaustrophobe
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    I guess I'm puzzled by the article... (more so than before..) I *think* the answer to the question you're asking - would it show us direction on one side of a wormhole to the other, is yes.

    I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the time having a *direction* we can point to... that, and static shapes for atomic nuclei; a non-changing, virtually solid nucleus goes against what I've been taught...

  • Quadrillian
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    I have a pear-shaped piece of fruit in my lunch box. I doubt if that can be used to navigate the universe either, no matter how desperate anyone is to make reality out of fiction.

    But I could sit in the lunch room waving the piece of fruit about in the air going "whoosh, full speed ahead captain". Like those with similar aspirations for nuclei, I would be considered slightly "peculiar".

    Cheers!

  • KennyB
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    The nucleus is an incredibly small structure in an atom. It does not create wormholes.

    Even if wormholes could be created (by something far larger than a nucleus), it will not allow us to travel anywhere.

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  • Angela D
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    please review the yahoo answers terms of service, particularly the part where it says you must ask questions that make sense.

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