Particle Essays

The Particle Adventure Assignment You are to use the Particle Adventure website (http://pdg.web.cern.ch/pdg/cpep/adventure_home.html) and follow the main path. For each page, you are to write one question and its answer. Keep track of the questions in each section because we will share the questions in class. You are also to complete the following worksheet using the information obtained from the website Particle Adventure Worksheet: In the 1930’s, how was the atom described? In 1932, an english

INTRODUCTION In this essay I am writing about some particles that I researched or took notes on. The particle I researched for was the Higgs Boson. The particle I took notes on are the Boson, Quarks, Leptons, and Dark Matter. Higgs Boson Who Was Higgs? Peter Higgs was born on the 29th of May 1929 in Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK. Peter Higgs was an emeritus(emeritus means a person retired from professional life but allowed to keep as an honorary the title of the rank in the last office held) professor

hot for a long time and to stop the transfer of heat. Kinetic Particle Theory. This theory explains the different states of matter. This includes solids, liquids, and gases. This theory also shows how the matter changes its states. The processes on how matter changes its states are the following: melting, freezing, boiling, condensing, evaporation, and sublimation. Ludwig Boltzmann and James Clerk Maxwell developed kinetic particle theory. This theory supports the study because it deals with a

Oscillations (2015) In 2015, two separate groups of physicists on two separate sides of the globe, shared the Physics Nobel Prize for their “discovery of neutrino oscillations which demonstrate that neutrinos have mass”, thus opening a “new realm in particle physics”. Since the turn of the century, when compelling evidence supported the discovery that neutrinos seem to undergo metamorphosis, the research groups at the Super-Kamiokande Neutrino Observatory in Mt Kino Japan and the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

According to the “Atomic Forces” and the “Intro to Forces” activities done in chemistry class. The electromagnetic force is the attraction or repulsion between same charged particles, yet the interactions between charged subatomic particles (protons, electrons, neutrons) that sometimes follow the principles of EMF (opposites attract, likes to repel) in an atom. The electromagnetic force will leave the proton Magic School Bus alone because the electrons are

The CERN Large Hadron Collider (Or LHC) is a particle accelerator – the largest and most powerful accelerator in the world right now. Located near Geneva, Switzerland, the Large Hadron Collider’s mission is to force particle collisions so that they can be observed. The Large Hadron Collider is twenty-seven kilometres in circumference, and is also located partly in France. There are four main parts to the Large Hadron Collider - LHCb, ALICE, CMS, and ATLAS. LHCb (LHC-beauty) looks for antimatter,

A physicist’s job is to use humanity’s understanding of how matter and energy interact to learn about the Universe. The job of physics, however, is to unite the four fundamental forces of nature: Gravity, Strong and Weak Nuclear, and electromagnetism, into a single physical model; A theory of everything. In the 20th century, physicists revolutionized humanity’s understanding of these forces and made great strides in uniting them, but the two theories which have brought humanity the closest to this

Everything in the world is made of tiny particles that have different amounts of stickiness, are differently sized and spaced, and have different speeds of motion. Particles are sticky, but have different amounts of stickiness. In the lab, Swab the Deck, I saw the alcohol slowly disappear, because the alcohol particles were sticky to the air particles. In the lab, Drops on a Candle, I watched the oil spread out and leave residue while the water stayed in a dome and left no residue, because oil is

Nuclear Research (CERN) is a the largest organization in the Particle-Physics and High-Energy physics field. CERN provides scientists resources so that they can do their research. Whenever renovations are needed for the Large Hadron Collider CERN funds them. The Collider is the largest scientific project of all time. Scientist use it so that they can gain evidence for theories or to disprove theories. The Collider also helps find new particles that can benefit life on Earth. What is the Large Hadron

to being a particle physicist as I am to walking on the moon. As a result of my lacking in knowledge and inability to understand Academic Journals I turned to an unorthodox place for information. I went to Youtube.com and searched Higgs Boson. There are a surprising number of videos that discuss this topic and the one I chose to watch was a TEDx talk by Dan Hooper Ph.D. in Napperville, Illinois. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw4_9xhGzjo). In this talk he breaks down subatomic particles and how they

All matter is made of particles, which can act a certain way depending on the differences in forms (liquid, solid, gas) and transitions, which can be observed with different properties as well as different appearances (size, color, etc). In the activity “How Small?”, we smashed a sugar cube to get smaller pieces of sugar. We also identified different types of sugar using properties. This evidence means that the sugar can have multiple sizes and different properties but can still be the same thing

In particle physics, antimatter is composed of antiparticles, which have the same mass as particles of ordinary particles but have opposite charge and other particle properties such as lepton and bayron number. According to the physics of the universe, the Big Bang should have produced matter and antimatter in equal quantities. The apparent asymmetry of matter and antimatter in the visible universe is one of the greatest unsolved problems in physics. The first known existence of antimatter was discovered

atomic and subatomic particles. General relativity describes gravity itself as a smooth curving of spacetime. Previous to string theory, these two things could not exist together as certain properties of quantum mechanics make general relativity impossible, such as the uncertainty principle. The uncertainty principle says that the exact location of a particle can never be precisely pinpointed, and this makes matter frenzied on small scales. This frenzy is caused by particles popping in and out of

What the heck is a higgs boson, maybe some type of foreign food? Peter Higgs is a physicist who way back in the 1960’s proposed a new model to explain where mass comes from in elementary particles. Higgs was interested in similar theories at the time such as the Goldstone theory. He in large worked off of the works and theories of other physicists such as Yoichiro Nambu. At the time there seemed to be a fundamental scientific controversy over the theory surrounding this subject. Soon Higgs had concocted

reality. He realized that it in the act of observing, the observer somehow, manages to alter the reality. This observation of his came to be known as the very famous “Uncertainty Principle”. At the sub-atomic level, measuring the properties of a small particle like that of an electron needs a measuring instrument. The measuring instrument is usually light or

Peter Higgs One does not truly know all the secrets of the universe there is mysterious yet to be discovered in this amazing universe. The god particle discovered by Peter Higgs is one of the great mysterious to this universe we live in today and the past. To truly understand more of how Peter Higgs brain had an understanding of the universe one must travel back in time to the beginning of his life. Understanding his life will not be just to understand his family life but also understand his

The Standard Model of particle physics has proven to be one of the most powerful theories we have developed to understand the physical world. It has been carefully crafted over several decades through the dedicated work of thousands of physicists and offers some of the most precisely verified predictions of any theory. Despite these successes, it is known that the Standard Model is incomplete. While this framework is extremely adept at describing the phenomena that fall into its range of applicability

communicate with the people of the Earth. (Hawkes 153)” This was interesting because I had no idea that the Northern Lights even made a noise. Even now, scientists are still unsure what is causing the sound and believe that it is just caused by the energy particles. The Labrador Inuits, however, have created their own explanation and have essentially made a connection with the natural phenomenon in the sky. Through this story alone one can learn a lot about what kind of people the Labrador Inuits

In Spike Jones’s Her, the quote between Theodore asking Samantha “Are you mine or are you not mine?” Samantha replies, “No Theodore, I’m yours and not yours.” This quote can be interpreted many different ways. Initially I interpreted this two different ways, the first was that because she was an operating system that was assigned to multiple users, she was his operating system, but she was also 8,316 others’ operating system so he could not be her only love. So she was his and not his also being

atomic and subatomic level. After the scientists work on this subject, they solved the mystery of tiny particles’ motions. However, a load of equations made quantum physics rename as ‘the hardest subject to understand’. Richard Feynman is well-known for a quantum physicist, the most difficult subject of the modern physics. However, he made a new diagram about the activity of photoelectric particles that public can easily understand. Feynman’s research career was made up with full of a persistent attitude