How can the unstable particles of the standard model be considered particles in their own right if they immediately decay into stable particles? It would appear to a layman such as myself that these heavier unstable particles are just transient interplay of the stable forms.
Let me start by explaining my particle physics background is very patchy, so this question may not be as coherent as  I would like it to be.   In general terms, what is the difference between a resonance found during a particle experiment and a particle?   From reading Wikipedia it seems to be mostly based on timescales. If a heavy particle decays quickly, how can we distinguish it from a resonance?  I would not be posting this question except for the fact that the Wikipedia page says "This page has some issues".        and I would be interested in knowing more about the subject.
How do I make the panko bread stick to my egg-coated chicken? I'm working on moving my current server setup to newer hardware, and migrating from ubuntu karmic koala to lucid lynx. Currently i'm using gw6c (compiled from the gogo6 website, as opposed to the version from the repositories) to get ipv6 access for my systems. On the karmic koala system, i used simple init.d script to get the ipv6 client started   #! /bin/sh /usr/local/gw6c/bin/gw6c -f /usr/local/gw6c/bin/gw6c.conf   I figured since this runs at any runlevel, it should translate to  respawn console none  start on startup  stop on shutdown  script exec /usr/local/gw6c/bin/gw6c -f /usr/local/gw6c/bin/gw6c.conf emit free6_ipv6_started end script   this works fine started from initctrl, but it apparently fails to start when it boots. - its status being stop/waiting. It works fine (and respawns) when started otherwise.Any ideas on where i'm going wrong, and what would be the appropriate 'start on' arguement?  EDIT: the exact error is 'init: gw6c main process (xxx) ended with status 8' followed by the process respawning , with xxx being a PID i suspect. I'm also half suspecting this is cause gw6c starts before networking does, and i need my eth0 up before gw6c is Pigeonhole-principle with two choices I am able to solve this sort of problem pretty easily.     An arm wrestler is the champion for a period of 75 hours. The arm   wrestler had at least one match an hour, but no more than 125 total   matches. Show that there is a period of consecutive hours during which   the arm wrestler had exactly 24 matches.   However this homework problem I can't seem to figure out.     Tyler has five weeks to prepare for his driver’s test. His mother   volunteers to ride with him for either 15 minutes or one half hour   every day until the test but not for more than 15 hours in all. Show   that during some period of consecutive days, Tyler and his mother will   drive for exactly 8.75 hours.   If I try doing it the same way as the first problem. I get $70$ pigeons and $95$ pigeon holes. I honestly don't know where to start with this problem. I thought that maybe I could assume that they only drove $.25$ hours on each day and prove that there is a period of consecutive days where they drove for exactly $8.75$ hours. Then I could say that we assume there is one day that they drove for $.5$ hours and work my way up, but I can't seem to get that to work either. show that $a^2+b^2+c^2+2abc+3\ge (1+a)(1+b)(1+c)$ let $a,b,c&gt;0$. Show that   $$a^2+b^2+c^2+2abc+3\ge (1+a)(1+b)(1+c)$$   By the $$(1+a)(1+b)(1+c)=1+a+b+c+ab+bc+ac+abc$$ it is suffient to show  $$a^2+b^2+c^2+abc+2\ge a+b+c+ab+bc+ac$$ How? In The Dark Knight Rises, at the beginning of the film Bane kidnapped a guy from the plane, then he drew blood from the guy he kidnapped. And then throughout the movie I didn't see any news regarding this kidnap scene. But, before the end of the movie we find out that the guy kidnapped by Bane was Dr Pavel. Bane needed him to convert the fusion project into a nuclear bomb and Dr Pavel was the only guy who could have done it.   But I don't understand, why did he draw blood from Dr Pavel? Can I dump my non-Retina Images for a iOS7 only app? Standard example where Jacobson radical not equal nilradical I have installed Ubuntu Server on an old desktop, and I'm new to this.  I had set it up and was trying to connect through Putty but that was not working.  When I tried ifconfig there was no eth0 IP address, and logging onto the router showed the only device connected by ethernet is the printer.  However, the ethernet cable is plugged into the server and is showing the green light by it.  I tried opening /etc/networking/interfaces but this shows the following:  source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*  # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback   I tried adding 'auto eth0' after this and saving but made no difference, and have tried sudo ifconfig eth0 up which didn't do anything either.  sudo lshw -C network says that the network is DISABLED.  Any ideas to help get this up and running?  EDIT: Running command lspci -knn | grep Eth -A3 results in the following:  02:05.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8110SC/8169SC Gigabit Ethernet [10ec:8167] (rev 10)          Subsytem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd GA-MA69G-S3H Motherboard [1458:e000]          Kernel driver in use: r8169          Kernel modules: r8169 Jordan Canonical Form determined by characteristic and minimal polynomials in dimension $3$, but not beyond Why and how is the  of a matrix in $M_3(\mathbb C)$ fully determined by its characteristic and minimal polynomials? And why does it fail for $n &gt;3$?   Thanks. Prevent malicious bots from posting spam I remember  due to misuse and I wonder if bots have a part of it. If the bot is POSTing something to my site what are ways I can combat it? I was thinking of setting some cookies and having the cookies changed via JavaScript + timestamp and sign (so yesterday's cookies can't be used today and next week).  I'm sure most people/bots would just use another site instead of enabling JavaScript in their bot.  What else can I do? I'm thinking daily POST limit and a honeypot for generic bots who just randomly post spam. I want to build a personal portfolio so my questions related are as follows:   What should I include in the portfolio apart from Home, About, Work, Contact? I have never worked on any real life examples so what to display in the work/portfolio page? What kind of design samples do I need to include? Ex: Website, Logo, Banner etc   Any help is appreciated.  Thanks! What type of solder is safest for home (hobbyist) use? Any idea why the piece of code below does not add the script element to the DOM?  var code = "&lt;script&gt;&lt;/script&gt;"; $("#someElement").append(code); An "urgent" tag for questions that need answers within minutes I often find myself in a spot of trouble, and when I have minutes left to fix it, I sometimes turn to SO/SF to start the "community help process". I suppose a tag like "urgent" or "immediate-attention" could enable contributors with spare time easily find the most desperate situations, giving more attention to those issues and solving them quicker. Or could this be a special tab on the home page? How to change Gnome-Terminal title? Prove that if $\lim_{n \to \infty}z_{n}=A$ then:  $$\lim_{n \to \infty}\frac{z_{1}+z_{2}+\cdots + z_{n}}{n}=A$$ I was thinking spliting it in: $$(z_{1}+z_{2}+\cdots+z_{N-1})+(z_{N}+z_{N+1}+\cdots+z_{n})$$ where $N$ is value of $n$ for which $|A-z_{n}|&lt;\epsilon$ then taking the limit of this sum devided by $n$ , and noting that the second sum is as close as you wish to $nA$ while the first is as close as you wish to $0$. Not sure if this helps.... How do I document a module in Python? That's it. If you want to document a function or a class, you put a string just after the definition. For instance:  def foo():     """This function does nothing."""     pass   But what about a module? How can I document what a file.py does? Dynamic select list in the form (dependent dropdown) I am looking for one word to describe someone who always does what he loves.   Loving means enjoying something very much, free-spirited means not restrained by convention. Is there a hybrid word?   I mean a word that describes someone who is independent and always does what he loves. Please also try to not make the word too esoteric. Also, the word needs to be positive.  How will it be used?  I am submitting an application for college, and they require me to supply a word to describe myself. I have always done what I love. So, I require a word to describe someone who loves what they want. There is no sentence, in particular, just a prompt asking me to describe myself in one word. Converting a string to a tuple in python