I guess it was a joke, but it should be rather simple to determine: if the gas if lighter than the atmosphere you're breathing, your voice will be lighter if you inhale this.
To be more specific, the molecular weight of normal He to He with one muon attached is roughly 4.1/4.0. The change in pitch relative to breathing He should be the square root of that ratio, which is a change of about 1.2%. For someone with absolute pitch, it may be possible to hear the difference of tone of a musical instrument. But I doubt anyone will hear a difference when a person speaks.
Actually, it would be able to form diatomic molecules, so the mass ratio would be 8.2/4. Taking the square root of that would leave you with a pitch approximately half an octave lower than normal helium. that said, the half-life of this stuff is shorter than the period of many audible sounds, so it's a rather pointless calculation.
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I guess it was a joke, but it should be rather simple to determine: if the gas if lighter than the atmosphere you're breathing, your voice will be lighter if you inhale this.
Re:what everyone wants to know... (Score:5, Interesting)
To be more specific, the molecular weight of normal He to He with one muon attached is roughly 4.1/4.0. The change in pitch relative to breathing He should be the square root of that ratio, which is a change of about 1.2%. For someone with absolute pitch, it may be possible to hear the difference of tone of a musical instrument. But I doubt anyone will hear a difference when a person speaks.
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Actually, it would be able to form diatomic molecules, so the mass ratio would be 8.2/4. Taking the square root of that would leave you with a pitch approximately half an octave lower than normal helium.
that said, the half-life of this stuff is shorter than the period of many audible sounds, so it's a rather pointless calculation.