Suppose you drop a ball down the side of the valley, Classical wisdom tells us that when the ball rolls up the hill on the other side. It can’t go any higher than the height from which you dropped it that’s conservation of energy. Even if there’s a nice big long slope to roll downContinue reading “Quantum tunneling”
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Quarks
When you’re a kid, you’re told that all the stuff around you is made of atoms and that atoms are made of protons and neutrons and electrons. And if you’re lucky you’re told what protons and neutrons are made of they’re made of three quarks eat, but if they’re both made of quarks, how areContinue reading “Quarks”
Brownian motion
One thing that’s astounding about Einstein’s Publications in 1905 is that they spanned a such a large range of physics after Illuminating the quantum nature of Light by explaining the photoelectric effect in March April saw Einstein turn to something apparently more mundane particles suspended in fluids in particular. If you look at tiny particlesContinue reading “Brownian motion”
Muons:Life example of the theory of relativity
Every second thousand of cosmic rays mostly hydrogen and helium nuclei strike every square meter of the Earth’s upper atmosphere. We don’t really know where they come from. But we do know that when cosmic rays crash into air molecules in the atmosphere. They create a shower of other fundamental particles pions crayons positrons, electronsContinue reading “Muons:Life example of the theory of relativity”
Antimatter
Pretty much everything in the universe is made out of matter the Earth, you and me stars Interstellar dust all matter by which we mean that these things are made out of electrons and quarks and very occasionally other rarer matter particles, like muons towns and neutrinos. All of these particles are at their fundamentalContinue reading “Antimatter”
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