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Dates: during 1977-1977
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Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: Would You Believe Lemon Leptons And Magic Muons? | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

Here a short digression is necessary. Modern quantum mechanics describes the forces between particles in terms of other, "mediating" particles. The mediating particle of gravity is called the graviton. The mediating particle of the electromagnetic force is called the photon. And the mediating particle of the "strong" force, proposed in 1934 by the Japanese physicist Hideki Yukawa, is called the "pion...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: Would You Believe Lemon Leptons And Magic Muons? | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

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