Articles related to "Elementary Particle"

The lightest four elements on the periodic table were made in nuclear fusion reactions shortly after the big bang.

In the big bang theory, matter formed in the early universe as elementary particles including protons, electrons, and neutrons.

The Higgs boson, aka the god particle, which physicists hope to detect with the new LHC, is the holy grail of modern particle physics. What are bosons and fermions?

Nuclear magnetic resonance, a resonance of the nucleus of atoms in magnetic fields, is the fundamental physics behind Magnetic Resonance Imaging and NMR spectroscopy.

Protons and other types of hadrons interact via the strong nuclear force. Hadrons are further classified into mesons and baryons.

Leptons are a class of elementary subatomic particles, which includes electrons and neutrinos, that interact via the weak nuclear force.

Susskind's "Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics" is a fascinating, if mind-boggling, read.

According to Einstein's famous equation, all matter is made of energy, but all matter is also made of fundamental particles - little, discrete, bundles of energy.

Light and all types of subatomic elementary particle show properties of both waves and particles.

High energy particle physicists who study elementary subatomic particles measure the energy of fundamental particles in units of electron volts, eVs.

Neutrinos are among the most elusive of elementary particles. They were not detected until about 25 years after they were first suggested to exist.

Elementary analysis of quantum entanglement suggests that all matter in the universe is still cosmically connected after 14 billion years, across 156 billion light years.

Scientists with the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory say their machine has a 50% chance of discovering the particle which is believed to give mass to the universe.

The Chlamydia genus of bacteria consists of four unique species that cause a variety of disease including genital tract infections and respiratory tract infections.

Dark matter has long remained elusive, but recent evidence suggests that it does exist, making up most of the matter in the universe. But what is it?

Bosons, along with fermions and leptons complete the 'zoo' of elementary particles.

Quantum physics provides new ideas that are in line with the cutting edge of science - the reality that consciousness is the ground of all being.

Inside the event horizon or Schwarzschild radius of a static isolated black hole the mass of the collapsed star is compressed into a singularity point.

A brief overview of the history of the universe from its origin in the big bang to the origin of life on Earth and how the needed raw materials for life formed.

Physicists and other scientists measure energy and work in units of joules, ergs, or calories. Calories measuring the energy content of food are really kilocalories.

Straddling the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, 50 meters underground and an astonishing 17 miles long; the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is easily the World's biggest gun.

Astronomy has many creative and strange names for the bizarre and wacky objects in the universe. Learn some new words today.