Sentences with phrase «exotic subatomic»

Most of this is thought to be made of cold dark matter, consisting of exotic subatomic particles, and hot dark matter, which may be made from neutrinos (New Scientist, Science, 11 February).

Exotic subatomic particles made up of five quarks that physicists briefly thought they had discovered back in 2003 now finally appear to be in the bag.

Not exact matches

In trying to reconcile general relativity with quantum mechanics, theorists now invoke even more exotic things — subatomic strings, parallel universes, and higher dimensions.

Quantum mechanics govern the behavior of matter at the atomic and subatomic levels in exotic and counterintuitive ways as compared to the everyday world of classical physics.

Early on, two teams had spied a telltale anomaly in the subatomic wreckage: an excess of energy from proton collisions that hinted at new physics perhaps produced by WIMPs (or, to be fair, many additional exotic possibilities).

A guide to the subatomic realm uses the metaphor of a painter's palette, with protons, neutrons and electrons as primary colors and more exotic particles adding new shades.

Remarkably, photosynthesis appears to derive its ferocious efficiency not from the familiar physical laws that govern the visible world but from the seemingly exotic rules of quantum mechanics, the physics of the subatomic world.

The new measurements serve to confirm and refine the existing theory of subatomic particles and help pave the way for a deeper theory that could include even more exotic particles.

Of all the known subatomic particles, neutrinos are perhaps one of the most exotic and least understood.