#particles

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. ↗

— Werner Heisenberg

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Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it. ↗

— Niels Bohr

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Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles. ↗

— John Tyndall

#consecutive #existence #life #life is a #moments

Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

#built #creators #fellow #fellow men #human

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

#capable #carried #enables #energy #extension

Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge. ↗

— Carl D. Anderson

#both #charge #counting #electric #great

The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#chambers #deposited #detectors #different #distinguish

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

#blocks #book #building #building blocks #chain

The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods. ↗

— Cecil Frank Powell

#detecting #enabled #escaped #establish #existence

At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion. ↗

— Johannes Stark

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