Group: sci.energy
From: Sam Wormley
Date: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 12:02 AM
Subject: Re: Busting gluons -- my ultimate high-energy physics fantasy

Troll Radium wrote:
> It is 12:00 AM on a dark moonless, cloudless night in the desert. I am
> here in an area free of city lights and city sounds. It is extremely
> dark but clear. Suddenly, some supernatural force attacks an area of
> air molecules the size of a basketball. This mysterious power
> stretches apart the gluons present in the neutrons of those air
> molecules. The gluons are stretched to their breaking points. The
> gluons are now temporarily free and not attached to quarks, other
> gluons, or anything else. I am from a safe enough distance that I am
> not injured but still close enough to perceive the benign effects.
>
>>From a scientific point of view, what should I expect to see

You won't and any incoming thing with enough kinetic energy
to simply disassociate the charged particles into plasma will
kill you instantly. You'll not "see" a thing.