Tag: particle physics
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Physics interests me, what are my options?
Hi, I am Rithwik Mohanty and I currently go to Shelton High School. I possess a profound passion for the field of physics. More specifically I am interested in the modern aspects of physics. For example, some things that interest me are the search for dark matter and particle physics. I like to keep up…
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Two new Baryons at LHC.
Two new Baryons at LHC. Two new Baryons at LHCb. LHCb, the famed experiment at CERN, Switzerland found a year ago two new Baryons. These are important steps in testing the validity of our state of the art understanding of current model of the Physical Universe, mostly in considering the “particle constituents” of the matter…
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LIGO in India? You must be kidding …
I was pleasantly surprised that this experiment is slated to come up in India, yes, with a whopping 250 million dollars investment into science in India is perhaps the only 2nd instance of massive science euphoria. And they are both directly or immediately so, in my field of research, although the first one INO isn’t…
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Waves, particles and Einstein !
Waves are something that have no mass and move at the maximum speed, mass m = 0. speed c = 1. So whats their momentum? p = m.v = 0? Right? No. For pure waves; momentum does not come from mass. It comes only from motion. (pure wave; they do not have mass) For matter…
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3 myths of physics, especially in textbooks.
2. Last year in a text book in Indian High School curriculum, I spotted and corrected with my students, the following: Myth; there are only 3 quarks that have been detected or FOUND/confirmed so far, in nature. Its based on a knowledge that was true more than 3 decades ago. All quarks, 6 of them,…
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