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There's different behaviour between the 3 generations though as a muon will decay whereas an electron won't.
by ndsipa_pomu 4mo ago
There's different behaviour between the 3 generations though as a muon will decay whereas an electron won't.
- aeonik 4mo agoWe don't know that electrons don't decay for sure. If we live in a false vacuum, for example, that could allow them to decay.
- ndsipa_pomu 4mo ago> We don't know that electrons don't decay for sure. However, we don't expect electrons to decay as we don't know what they would decay into i.e. there doesn't seem to be anything plausible with a lower energy configuration. > If we live in a false vacuum, for example, that could allow them to decay. Possibly, but that's quite speculative and if our vacuum does decay, then there's a good chance we wouldn't be around to see the differences.