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Those microscopic particles are still in space and time: they're still in the user interface.
But, you might ask, why was the Higgs boson included in the standard model, alongside well-known particles like electrons and photons and quarks, if it hadn't been discovered back then in the 1970s?
It's a world of phantoms, where particles can also behave like spread-out waves.
Particles can multitask, they can be in two places at once.
Particles can behave like spread-out waves.
The particles fuse together, and the Sun turns hydrogen into helium through quantum tunneling.
Well, it was discovered that one of the tricks that enzymes have evolved to make use of, is by transferring subatomic particles, like electrons and indeed protons, from one part of a molecule to another via quantum tunneling.
Now, quantum entanglement is when two particles are far apart, and yet somehow remain in contact with each other.
We shake this box up, and all these people kind of start hitting each other like particles.
However, recent theories in physics, including one called string theory, are now telling us there could be countless other universes, built on different types of particles, with different properties, obeying different laws.
In doing so, the individual particles are closer together, and more collisions will occur.
By increasing the number of particles available for collision, we create an environment where more collisions can take place.
Higher temperature means particles are moving faster.
Faster-moving particles means more energy, and a greater likelihood of the reaction-causing collision.
When particles travel in packs, the surface area is very small, and only the outside particles can collide.
However, by breaking up the clumps into individual particles, the total surface area is increased, and each particle has an exposed surface that can react.
They do this by bringing two particles together and orienting them correctly in space so that the two can meet at the correct configuration and allow a reaction to take place.
And if a chemist wants to make a chemical reaction occur, the particles must collide in the correct orientation with an appropriate amount of energy.
Well, in 1811, someone had an idea that if you had equal volumes of gases, at the same temperature and pressure, they would contain an equal number of particles.
Now the thing is that the amount of particles in even small samples is tremendous.
For example, If you have a balloon of any gas at zero degrees Celcius, and at a pressure of one atmosphere, then you have precisely six hundred and two sextillion gas particles.
Or in scientific notation, 6.02 times 10 to the 23rd particles.
This example is a little misleading, because gases take up a lot of space due to the high kinetic energy of the gas particles, and it leaves you thinking atoms are bigger than they really are.
Exchange the water particles for donuts.
Newton believed that light is made up of tiny, atom-like particles, which he called corpuscles.
In the 19th century, long after Newton died, scientists did a series of experiments that clearly showed that light can't be made up of tiny, atom-like particles.
If light were made of tiny, solid balls, then you would expect that some of the particles from Beam A would crash into some of the particles from Beam B. If that happened, the two particles involved in the collision would bounce off in random directions.
Only waves make interference patterns, particles don't.
Firstly with cosmic rays, and then with particle accelerators, machines that smash together subatomic particles at great energies.
But the way we study the fundamental particles, as well as the forces by which they interact, involves creating them fleetingly, colliding protons in our accelerators and capturing a trace of them as they zoom off near light speed.
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