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If you concentrate a huge amount of energy in a tiny space, new
particles
will come into existence.
If we look closer, we see that these
particles
always come in pairs, like twins.
That's because
particles
always have a counterpart, an antiparticle, and these are always produced in exactly equal amounts: 50/50.
In the collisions between two protons at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, billions of
particles
and antiparticles are produced every second.
But, apart from the opposite charges, both
particles
are identical and perfectly stable.
Since antiparticles and
particles
should exist in equal numbers, this missing antimatter?
Otherwise, there would be no
particles
at all anywhere in the universe and also no human beings.
Supersymmetry, or SUSY for short, predicts a whole range of new particles, some of which could make up the dark matter.
The idea is that all the
particles
we know today are just different harmonics on the string.
Rapid nuclear fission is not any better since it often results in many radioactive
particles.
Elements like oxygen and nitrogen, even countless dust particles, make up the air around us.
By definition, it means the
particles
are essentially locked into place and must push back instead of getting out of the way, but water is liquid and flows easily.
Air has a lot more free space for
particles
to move past one another, so even more of our energy would be wasted.
Dust consists of dead skin cells from humans, soil particles, and fibers from clothes made from cotton and other materials.
As if that weren't enough, pi is used in particle physics experiments, such as those using the Large Hadron Collider, not only due to its round shape, but more subtly, because of the orbits in which tiny
particles
move.
One was Einstein's theory of relativity, the other was arguably even more revolutionary: quantum mechanics, a mind-meltingly strange yet stunningly successful new way of understanding the microworld, the world of atoms and
particles.
The LHC whizzes subatomic
particles
around a 27-kilometer ring, getting them closer and closer to the speed of light before smashing them into each other inside gigantic particle detectors.
The Higgs field gives mass to the fundamental
particles
that we're made from.
If it wasn't there, those
particles
would have no mass, and no atoms could form and there would be no us.
I'm not going to go into the details of these ideas now, but the key point is this: if any of them explained this weirdly fine-tuned value of the Higgs field, then we should see new
particles
being created at the LHC along with the Higgs boson.
One of the most promising candidates for a unified theory is string theory, and the essential idea is, if you could zoom in on the fundamental
particles
that make up our world, you'd see actually that they're not
particles
at all, but tiny vibrating strings of energy, with each frequency of vibration corresponding to a different particle, a bit like musical notes on a guitar string.
What particle physicists are all desperately hoping for are signs of new particles, micro black holes, or maybe something totally unexpected emerging from the violent collisions at the Large Hadron Collider.
Every atom has a core, which is made up of at least one positively charged particle called a proton, and in most cases, some number of neutral
particles
called neutrons.
That core is surrounded by negatively charged
particles
called electrons.
They appear to behave either as particles, like little baseballs, or as waves, like water waves, depending on the experiment that we perform.
We have yet to discover a dark matter particle, but scientists all over the world are searching for this elusive particle or
particles
and the effects of dark matter on the universe.
Because they're designed to wash away harmful substances, or particles, they're released in much larger amounts, and their aqueous layer contains more antibodies to stop any microorganisms that may be trying to get in, as well.
See these tiny
particles?
And the liquid around those
particles?
When ketchup is just sitting around, the tomato
particles
are evenly and randomly distributed.
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