Posted on 12/02/2016 7:50:14 PM PST by MtnClimber
During the 19th and 20th centuries, physicists began to probe deep into the nature of matter and energy. In so doing, they quickly realized that the rules which govern them become increasingly blurry the deeper one goes. Whereas the predominant theory used to be that all matter was made up of indivisible atoms, scientists began to realize that atoms are themselves composed of even smaller particles.
From these investigations, the Standard Model of Particle Physics was born. According to this model, all matter in the Universe is composed of two kinds of particles: hadrons – from which Large Hadron Collider (LHC) gets its name – and leptons. Where hadrons are composed of other elementary particles (quarks, anti-quarks, etc), leptons are elementary particles that exist on their own.
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Nope. Those days be Hadrons. They’re too full of themselves to be leptons.
Confusing as all get out.
That’s what they are.
Many a boss has commented similarly.
;)
Those are pretty.
Never bothers me asking stupid questions. Don’t learn anything pretending you know something you dont :)
So I looked at the parts of a nerve cell that get damaged.
I obviously am not sure what an atom is and what it does in a nerve cell but I guess it’s there before and after the cell is damaged.
So studying atoms and smaller particles doesn’t do a hell of a lot for healthcare, i guess :)
Did not.
Well, of course it does, but none of this involves damaged atoms.
Ha. You did make me laugh.
When I read the whole article and really looked at the Standard Model, I sighed. I’ve been “good” for years with the purple part but that green part just slays me. How did I miss the whole early discussion about leptons. Dang.
Somehow, I must integrate. Integrate. INTEGRATE!!!
Resident Leprechauns of Aleppo?
Whoville?
Just one of thousands of beautiful mushrooms. Another reason to believe in the Creator. Romans 1:18: For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. (Had to throw that in.)
I had a huge fungi fruiting body behind my shed one year. Cream and melonish and pink. Shaped more like a coral than a traditional mushroom. It was really beautiful.
Post a picture. Maybe it is identifiable.
Subatomic particles make up atoms, atoms make up molecules, molecules make up proteins, fats, sugars, etc all the things that make up cells & life. Scientific discipline-wise: particle physics is a foundation to nuclear physics is a foundation to atomic physics/chemistry (though line is blurred here!) to engineering & medicine. Better understanding of each foundation step means more breakthroughs at the next level.
That’s why it such a shame we never built the Superconducting Super Collider ceding all that to the Europeans was a great shame. The spin off in materials science, vacuum technology, RF engineering, controls, high speed computing the alone generations of scientists & engineers trained by this and having access to this technology is incalculable. The Europeans will never efficiently exploit this technology advantage, not like we could!
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