Quotes About Neutron

High-energy collisions have led to the observation of many hundreds of new hadronic particle states. These new particles, which are generally unstable, appear to be just as fundamental as the neutron and the proton.

The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%.

I felt like a punk who'd gone out to buy a switchblade and come home with a small neutron bomb. Screwed again, I thought. What good's a neutron bomb in a streetfight?

Certain macroscopic objects directly display quantum mechanical effects. Superconductors and neutron stars-the latter behaving like atomic nuclei with a six-mile diameter-are macroscopic objects that cannot be described in terms of classical physics.

in 1963 because he liked the sound of the sentence "Three quarks for Muster Mark" in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. As for "Muster Mark, "three quarks are needed to form a proton or a neutron. The electric charges of quarks are fractional (+/-1/3 or +?2/3) because their sum must equal the charge of a proton (+1) or a neutron (0).