Quotes About Particle

I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn't be found.

Most gravity has no known origin. Is it some exotic particle? Nobody knows. Is dark energy responsible for expansion of the universe? Nobody knows.

Dark matter is particularly intriguing because it's some kind of particle - that's for sure.

particle in a superposition between location X and location Y is in a strange state of being both at X and at Y while being definitely at neither.

quantum entanglement," technically defined as a situation in which the quantum state of one particle cannot be described independently of the quantum state of another.

Today's particle physics describe light as a crumple in space, and we may have deformed space in such a way that they noticed something peculiar - and they had the ability to investigate it.

Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is.

Physics has the cutest words.

I had been interested in particle physics, which deals with the fundamental constituents of matter.

Just think: our world is a particle spinning through an infinity!

A weapon—any weapon—is a tool, she told us. Cradled in her arms was a Sunjet particle gun. Designed for a specific purpose, just as any tool is, and only useful in that purpose. You would think a man a fool to carry a force hammer with him everywhere simply because he is an engineer. And as it is with engineers, so it is doubly with Envoys.

We are all made of stardust

Nature was not satisfied by a simple point charge but required a charge with spin.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

Soul, a particle of God, is blessed with the gift of creative imagination, which finds a solution for every problem.

The Ascension is actually the birth of the Inner You expressed as the spiritual individualism of the inner particle state.

The electron can no longer be conceived as a single, small granule of electricity; it must be associated with a wave, and this wave is no myth; its wavelength can be measured and its interferences predicted.

It is seen that both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those of particles. Now, it is obvious that a thing cannot be a form of wave motion and composed of particles at the same time - the two concepts are too different.

Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.

The electron must have infinite mass. Of course, no one believes this is literally true. But it happens to be true in the best theory that we have at the moment. And, until a better theory comes along, viewing the electron in this manner will continue to be unavoidable

Oppenheimer first described the so-called tunnel effect whereby an uncertainly located particle sails through the electrical barrier around the nucleus on a light breeze of probability, existing—in particle terms—then ceasing to exist, then instantly existing again on the other side.549 But George Gamow, the antic Russian, lecturing in Cambridge, devised the tunnel-effect equations that the experimenters used.

He spoke of "the possible existence of an atom of mass 1 which has zero nucleus charge." Such an atomic structure, he thought, seemed by no means impossible. It would not be a new elementary particle, he supposed, but a combination of existing particles, an electron and a proton intimately united, forming a single neutral particle.

Compton had in fact demonstrated in 1923 what Einstein had postulated in 1905 in his theory of the photoelectric effect: that light was wave but also simultaneously particle, photon.

Arnold Sommerfeld hailed the Compton effect—elastic scattering of a photon by an electron—as "probably the most important discovery which could have been made in the current state of physics" because it proved that photons exist, which hardly anyone in 1923 yet believed, and demonstrated clearly the dual nature of light as both particle and wave.