It uses a variety of tools including VERITAS, AUGER and COUPP — dedicated telescopes, water tanks and underground «bubble chambers» — to
observe known particles and to search for those that are so far only hypothetical, such as the dark - matter WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles).
Not exact matches
He then asks: «If a
particle can not be isolated, or
observed, even in theory, how will we ever be able to
know that it exists?»
In their paper, «Higgs Seesaw Mechanism as a Source for Dark Energy,» Krauss and Dent explore how a possible small coupling between the Higgs
particle, and possible new
particles likely to be associated with what is conventionally called the Grand Unified Scale — a scale perhaps 16 orders of magnitude smaller than the size of a proton, at which the three
known non-gravitational forces in nature might converge into a single theory — could result in the existence of another background field in nature in addition to the Higgs field, which would contribute an energy density to empty space of precisely the correct scale to correspond to the
observed energy density.
One way of explaining its heaviness is through supersymmetry theory, in which
known particles are coupled with heavier ones that might be
observed in bigger
particle colliders.
The wispy
particles can not be
observed directly, however, so the 39 - meter - diameter, 41 - meter - high observation tank is filled with water and lined with photomultiplier tubes that can catch a distinctive glow,
known as Cerenkov radiation, produced when neutrinos smash into atomic
particles in the water.
The first thing to
know about
observing the universe with cosmic - ray eyes is that Earth's atmosphere destroys these
particles before they reach the ground.
«4D - STEM experiments mean we
no longer need to make a tradeoff between the smallest features we can resolve and the field - of - view that we are
observing — we can analyze the atomic structure of the entire
particle at once.»
In his 1905 PhD thesis, Albert Einstein derived a formula,
known as the Stokes - Einstein equation, that makes it possible to calculate a material's mechanical properties by
observing and measuring the movement of
particles in that material.
But critics point out that MOND can not explain the
observed masses of clusters of galaxies without invoking dark matter, in the form of almost massless,
known particles called neutrinos.
Blandford: Cosmic rays is [are] historically the
particles that hit the Earth, they were discovered in the early part of the 20th century and mostly that's what people think of as cosmic rays, but relativistic
particles exist again throughout the universe and they don't actually have to hit the Earth for their effects to be
observed and for them to pose, you
know, interesting astrophysical problems for us to try and solve.
«This is a very interesting time in
particle physics, because we have this Standard Model, which explains everything we've
observed and everything we
know about for the last 30 years with no significant deviations.
This applies, for example, to entanglement, a quantum physical phenomenon that can be
observed between atoms or photons (light
particles): when two of these
particles are entangled, the physical state of the two
particles can
no longer be described independently, only the total system that both
particles form together.
Physicists
know how to create pairs of entangled photons, sub-atomic light
particles, and have
observed them operating in sync between two of the Canary Islands at a distance of 143 kilometers.
They found it by
observing a long - sought, short - lived afterglow of subatomic
particles ejected from a magnetar — a neutron star with a magnetic field billions of times stronger than any on Earth and 100 times stronger than any other previously
known in the Universe.
Joe: «You additionally
observe that I am «taking the extreme and irrelevant sub-thermodynamic case of a minuscule total number of isolated
particles — in which regime the macroscopic temperature is increasingly ill - defined and
no longer simply proportional to the kinetic energy per
particle.»
Which sounds doable, at least in theory... but as Heisenberg
observed, simultaneously
knowing both the location and velocity of even a single
particle is not possible, even in theory.
I'll admit that dimethysulphide and iodocompounds are poor reaches for straws, I don't
know who dreamed that up, more emphasis should be made on natural mineral, sea - salt, and gas - to -
particle aerosols)-- Very poor oversimplified cloud modeling (equating all clouds to a single W / m2 forcing parameter)-- Accuracy of model predictions (they present a juicy graph of a 1988 model and
observed temps.