That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call it 'that goddamn particle' because it was clear it was going to be a tough job finding it experimentally. His editor wouldn't have that, and he said, 'oka...
There never was one particle of... jealousy... in the heart of Hyrum Smith.
One hundred thirty-seven is the inverse of something called the fine-structure constant. ...The most remarkable thing about this remarkable number is that it is dimension-free. ...Werner Heisenberg once proclaimed that all the quandaries of quantum m...
Another very good test some readers may want to look up, which we do not have space to describe here, is the Casimir effect, where forces between metal plates in empty space are modified by the presence of virtual particles. Thus virtual particles ar...
God doesn't play a particles game with the universe.
Higgs particle is the illusion that gives all matter mass.
Physics is the story of matter, with waves or particles.
Physics is the story of matter, with strings or particles.
I do not keep up with the details of particle physics.
But who could resist the erotic lives of atoms and molecules - the violent passion of electrostatic attractions, the comfortable mutuality of covalent bonds, the gentle air kisses of van der Waals forces? The rules governing the couplings and uncoupl...
Which came first — the observer or the particle?
I just refuse to worry or get upset or be fearful. It doesn't do one particle of good.
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief.
I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.
Time is more important than matter, The moment more important than the particle.
The secret of matter is not the elementary particles, The secret of matter is in a moment of time.
There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure.
If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.
I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn't be found.
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
