45 Particles Quotes for You to Enjoy

I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous collection of fundamental particles, the lack of pattern to their masses. Leonard Susskind

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The standard model of particle physics describes forces and particles very well, but when you throw gravity into the equation, it all falls apart. You have to fudge the figures to make it work. Lisa Randall

Work You Physics Throw Particle Particles Well Make Forces Equation Falls Very Model Apart Standard Figures Gravity

The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and the billions of petrol explosions in the engine blocks of trucks and cars seem to churn up the molecules of life and heaven so violently that the beautiful fogs are unable to hold together like they once did. Michael Leunig

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What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars. Murray Gell-Mann

Book Matter Try Building Universe Adaptive Relationships Way Everywhere Complex System Running Entities Particles Particular Like Trace Building Blocks Blocks Chain Elementary Fundamental

The world is not made up of particles and waves and beams of light with a definite existence. Instead, the world works in a much more exploratory way. It is aware of all the possibilities at once and trying them out all the time. That is a hard thing to picture. Neil Turok

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I'm a fan of supersymmetry, largely because it seems to be the only route by which gravity can be brought into the scheme. It's probably not even enough, but it's a way forward to get gravity involved. If you have supersymmetry, then there are more of these particles. That would be my favourite outcome. Peter Higgs

You Enough Way Would Outcome Would-Be Favourite Brought Seems More Only Scheme Particles Involved Because Get Fan Which Then Forward Even Largely Route Gravity

There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there. Richard Gere

Light Nothing Project About Particles Real Proven Exist Even Film

Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task. Richard P. Feynman

Together Long Investigating Particles Forces Task Hold Nuclear

Quarks came in a number of varieties - in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks - they are called u-type, d-type, s-type. Richard P. Feynman

Three First Different Kinds Hundreds Kinds Only Fact Particles Came Were Different In Fact Explain Number Needed

The standard model of particle physics says that the universe consists of a very small number of particles, 12, and a very small number of forces, four. If we're correct about those 12 particles and those four forces and understand how they interact, properly, we have the recipe for baking up a universe. Robert J. Sawyer

Physics Universe Recipe Correct Those Says Consists About Properly Small Particle Particles Baking Forces Understand How Up Very Model Interact Standard Four Number

Between death and a new birth, we know that our body, down to its smallest particles, is formed out of the cosmos. For we ourselves prepare this physical body, bringing together in it the whole of animal nature; we ourselves build it. Rudolf Steiner

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We tend to talk about the world in a myriad of ways - a microscopic world of elementary particles, a biological world of organisms and evolution, a social world of morality and meaning. But it's all the same underlying world. That's the underlying theme of 'The Big Picture.' Sean M. Carroll

In 1956, when I began doing theoretical physics, the study of elementary particles was like a patchwork quilt. Electrodynamics, weak interactions, and strong interactions were clearly separate disciplines, separately taught and separately studied. There was no coherent theory that described them all. Sheldon Lee Glashow

The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement. Victor Francis Hess

Measurement Strong Energy Field Further Penetrating Carried Out Magnetic Particles Most Enables Still Method Improvement May Capable Extension Application

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