Quotes About Particle

In another experiment Guericke connects a small glass sphere that's filled with air with a larger evacuated one. As he opens the valve between the two, air from the small sphere penetrates the large, empty volume; in the process, water droplets appear and sink to the bottom. This effect- the formation of droplets during rapid expansion has been used routinely in our century as a detection method for elementary particle tracks in an instrument called a cloud chamber.

There is no such thing as an indescribable material object. Every particle that meets its antiparticle gives up its identity and becomes radiative energy. In the process, the energy is conserved, but the structure of the particle-be it Democritus's sphere or a die, be it charged or neutral-vanishes. It dissolves into pure energy. All identity is absorbed in the sea of pure energy.

There is no such thing as an indestructible material object. Every particle that meets its antiparticle gives up its identity and becomes radiative energy. In the process, the energy is conserved, but the structure of the particle-be it Democritus's sphere or a die, be it charged or neutral-vanishes. It dissolves into pure energy. All identity is absorbed in the sea of pure energy.

In physics terms, the reason for symmetry breaking is the instability of the symmetric state.

Particle-antiparticle pairs fluctuating in the vacuum also permit the fusion of two real photons into a single one, in the presence of an external field.

There is field for every particle. If that field is concentrated in some spatial region, the particle of that field is likely to be located in that region once a detector looks for it. We introduced fields as abstract quantities associated with space; we describe a field as an excitation of space that oscillates like tall grasses in a heavy wind. Recall, however, that there is no material aspect to these field oscillations. Rather, a field is a field is a field.

While the effective electrical charge of a proton decreases with distance, the strength of the effective color charge of a quark increases with distance.

The electrons seem eerily to take both paths at once if nothing is watching, but a definite path if someone or something is watching! These are not particles and not waves-they are both and neither-they are something new: They are quantum states.6

Is the universe 'elegant,' as Brian Greene tells us? Not as far as I can tell, not the usual laws of particle physics, anyway. I think I might find the universal principles of String Theory most elegant - if I only knew what they were.

Spreading out the particle into a string is a step in the direction of making everything we're familiar with fuzzy. You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to.

Quarks are so weird that they have been referred to as "The dreams that stuff is made from," and they are way beyond the scope of this book.

for overstrong was the command to hold fast to each smallest particle of time, to the smallest particle of every circumstance, and to embody all of them in memory as if they could be preserved in memory through all deaths for all times.

Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.

The stability of what's called the Standard Model of particle physics and its ability to make so many clever predictions with immense precision suggests that we may just be stuck with it, and there may never be an overthrow of that.

Quark-antiquark collisions cannot be realized directly since free quarks are not available. The closest substitute is to use collisions between protons and antiprotons.

How do we define consciousness, or what has been called the human soul or the spirit, if it can't be quantified as matter or a particle?... it can be quantified or observed just by a process of elimination.

It's the fault of those physicists and that synchronicity theory, every particle being connected with every other; you can't fart without changing the balance in the universe. It makes living a funny joke with nobody around to laugh.

La partícula que se mueve de tal forma que nos impide predecir la posición que ocupará en un segundo determinado

The uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics, coupled with the relations of special relativity, tell us that, using physical constants, we can relate a particle's mass, energy, and momentum to the minimum size of the region in which a particle of that energy can experience forces or interactions.

The particle's discovery is tremendously exciting. It's also inspirational. Let's just enjoy that for now.

The goal of particle physics is to discover matter's most basic constituents and the most fundamental physical laws obeyed by those constituents.

If an extra dimension is rolled up into a circle, the mass of the lightest such particle would differ from the electron's mass by an amount inversely proportional to the extra dimension's size. That means that, the larger the extra dimension, the smaller the particle's mass.

The photon is the first example we will encounter of a gauge boson, a fundamental, elementary particle that is responsible for communicating a particular force.

Maggie's limp, warm little body was emitting a barrage of some kind of subatomic particle that was making me drowsy. Probably sleepeons. Mouse snored a little, generating his own sleepeon field.