Although most particles disintegrate [the technical term is “decay”] into other particles, a few types of particles do not. Why not? The world exhibits many types of particles — y…| Of Particular Significance
The Large Hadron Collider is a wonderful and exciting machine. But first things first — what’s a hadron??!! A hadron is any particle that is made from quarks, anti-quarks and gluons. …| Of Particular Significance
The Large Hadron Collider is mainly a machine for smashing protons into each other. But what’s a proton? First and foremost, it’s a mess. A total mess. As ugly a…| Of Particular Significance
Matt Strassler [May 31, 2013] In this article I want to discuss basic properties of the forces that we know about — four that we’ve actually observed, and a fifth — a new one R…| Of Particular Significance
Over the past 130 years, physicists have discovered that pretty much everything material, including rocks and rain, sun and sunshine, ocean waves and radio waves, can be described in terms of parti…| Of Particular Significance
