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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In the early 1930s, scientists were fairly confident (meaning there was consensus) they understood subatomic physics.

The vague term ‘fairly confident’ needed definition in today’s modern language.


2 posted on 04/16/2014 7:05:21 PM PDT by taterjay
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17 posted on 04/16/2014 7:49:39 PM PDT by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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To: taterjay
In the early 1930s, scientists were fairly confident (meaning there was consensus) they understood subatomic physics.

They had a working understanding of nuclear physics, and this has stood up. The further forays deeper into the subatomic realm, or realms, has been ongoing through the 60's, 70's and later. I remember the excitement over the J/psi particle, back in the day. It too, was a "resonance", i.e. a "bump" in a curve of reaction cross section versus energy.

I note the Upsilon Meson was discovered about the same time. Here's a very quaint figure from the paper announcing it:

Now we have detectors the size of battle ships with INSANE computing power ( based on 1930's concepts of solid state physics, however finally honed, ) and we get tetraquarks.

OK, great.

24 posted on 04/16/2014 9:04:28 PM PDT by dr_lew
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