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Combine to form composite particles called hadrons, the most stable of which are protons and neutrons. Variations include up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom. | |
Type of animal used by Schrodinger in his paradoxical thought experiement about quantum mechanics during correspondence with Einstein. | |
Reclusive British theoretical physicist & Nobel prize winner whose equation describes the behaviour of ferminons and which led to the prediction of the existence of antimatter. | |
World's largest particle accelerator. 17 miles in circumfrence and lies below Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. | |
Theory that refers to idea that the Universe has expanded from a primordial hot and dense initial condition approx. 13.7 billions years ago and continues to expand today. | |
Author of the uncertainty principle of quantum theory that states that certain pairs of physical properties, like position and momentum, cannot both be known to the same precision. | |
Term for multiple possible universes, including ours, that comprise everything that physically exists, the entirety of space and time, all forms of energy, matter, and momentum. | |
American astonomer who demonstrated the existence of other galaxies besides the Milky Way. Helped prove that the known universe was expanding. | |
Acronym for a number of activities untertaken to search for extraterrestrial life. Searches for electromagnetic transmission from civilizations on distant planets. | |
Principle of when competing hypotheses are equal in other respects, the one that introduces the fewest assumptions while still answering the question, should be selected. | |
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Theorized particle sometimes known as the 'God particle', if shown, would help explain the origin of mass in the unvierse. | |
Regarded as the father of modern physics and was famous for his special and general theories of relativity. | |
A sci-fi concept describing the transfer of matter from one point to another. Described recently by physicist Michio Kaku and its possibility relies upon the work of Heisenberg. | |
Developing branch of physics that combines quantum mechancs and general relativity into a single theory. Series of oscillating lines or surfaces and 11 dimensions. | |
Elementary particles that often travel close to the speed of light and are able to pass through ordinary matter. Most of these that pass through the Earth eminate from the Sun. | |
German physicist considered to be founder of the quantum theory. Mentor to Einstein. Won Nobel Prize for physics in 1918. | |
A region of space in which the gravitational field is so powerful that nothing, not even light, can escape. | |
Hypothetical matter undetectable by its emitted radiation, but whose presence can be inferred from gravitational effects on visible matter. Accounts for the vast majority of mass. | |
The study of controlling the matter on an atomic and molecular scale. This technology has the potential to create many new materials and devices with a vast range of applications, | |
Hypothetical topological feature that is fundamentally a shortcut through space and time. The name was coined by American theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler in 1957. | |
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