Quotes About Particle

The long-lived K meson was discovered at Brookhaven.

If a particle wants to have mass then it must find the energy to support it somehow. If it has any energy left over then it can use it to do other things. Not all particles bother with mass.

Life is both a particle and a wave, Lacey taught me, and also it's neither. But only when no one is watching. Once you measure it, it has to choose. It was the act of witnessing that turned nothing into something, collapsed possibility clouds into concrete and irrevocable truth. I'd only pretended to understand before, but I understood now: When no one was watching, I was a cloud. I was all possibilities.

Particle physicists are way ahead of cosmologists. Cosmology has produced one totally mysterious quantity: the energy of empty space, about which we understand virtually nothing. However, particle physics has not understood many more quantities for far longer!

Maybe all of the mysteries of particle theory can be solved by invoking the same mantra: if the universe were any other way, we could not live in it.

Over the last three decades, theorists have proposed at least a dozen new approaches. Each approach is motivated by a compelling hypothesis, but none has so far succeeded. In the realm of particle physics, these include Technicolor, preon models, and supersymmetry. In the realm of spacetime, they include twistor theory, causal sets, supergravity, dynamical triangulations, and loop quantum gravity. Some of these ideas are as exotic as they sound.

The field is the sole governing agency of the particle

It has to do with the number of possible four-dimensional positions a quantum particle can take between two locations. As your own mathematicians have learned, some infinities are larger than others.

When you separate an entwined particle and you move both parts away from the other, even at opposite ends of the universe, if you alter or affect one, the other will be identically altered or affected. Spooky. (Adam in Only Lovers Left Alive)

It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm tempted to say that it has to do with the fuzziness it introduces.

If this sounds unbearably paradoxical, maybe you should quit reading here, because this won't be the last time we find paradox in Buddhist practice or Buddhist teachings. Then again, there's paradoxical stuff in modern physics (an electron is both a particle and a wave), and modern physics works fine.

So if you want to change a belief or perception, you have to first change your state of being. And changing your state of being means changing your energy, because in order for you to affect matter, you have to become more energy and less matter, more wave and less particle. That requires you to combine a clear intention and an elevated emotion—those are the two ingredients.

Pero sólo cuando el observador se fija en cualquier localización de un electrón, es cuando aparece ese electrón. En suma, una partícula no puede manifestarse en la realidad, es decir, en el espacio-tiempo tal como nosotros lo conocemos, hasta que es observada.

In other words, a particle cannot manifest in reality—that is, ordinary space-time as we know it—until we observe it.1

A scientist is only a human being, a particle in the whole universe. How can the observations and logic of a particle measure the life and size of a phenomenon that is limitless?

The antiparticle of any particle has the same mass as the particle, and the same spin. But the antiparticle has the opposite charge.

quantum mechanics, general relativity, and the Standard Model of particle physics.

We have seen these bodies, she would think, and even long after we are gone some particle in the universe will hold a memory of the words we once used to describe their beauty.

The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.

To me, it was clear proof of the existence of supersymmetry, the idea that every particle has a partner. She was mine.

The blood, the fountain whence the spirits flow The generous stream that waters every part, And motion, vigor, and warm life conveys To every particle that moves or lives.

The sum is, that man cannot claim a single particle of righteousness to himself, without at the same time detracting from the glory of the divine righteousness.

The quantum wavelength of a particle gets smaller the more massive the particle. Situations are dominated by quantum waviness when the quantum wavelength of their participants exceeds their physical size. Everyday objects, like cars and speeding cricket balls, have such high masses that their quantum wavelengths are vastly smaller than their sizes and we can forget about quantum influences when driving cars or watching cricket matches.

String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.