Word: proton
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Quarks are believed to be the basic building blocks of all the larger atomic particles. Three of them are bound together to form each proton and neutron in the nuclei of atoms...
Baird Professor of Science Francis M. Pipkin says that the department has been using graphics for a decade The computer can display data from experiments with high energy proton collisions among other research activities...
From the craggy heights of Hawaii's volcanoes to a misty lake in Tuscany, from the proton to the poetry of ancient Greece, the freedom of June, July, and August allowed an explosion of exploration for some scholars...
...bosons, known as W¯ and W+ and Z°, are carriers of the weak force, just as photons transmit the electromagnetic force. But bosons are more elusive than photons. Although nearly 100 times as heavy as protons, they could not be forged in any existing accelerator. While physicists in the U.S. and elsewhere began designing new machines, Rubbia, who divides his time between Harvard and CERN, the French acronym for the Geneva-based European Organization for Nuclear Research, decided that there must be an easier, cheaper way. He persuaded CERN to let him modify its major accelerator, the Super...
...even moon rocks. Dirac, one of the fathers of quantum theory, said that magnetic particles might exist that are exclusively "north" or "south." Recent developments in quantum theory suggest that these single-poled units, or "monopoles," would have immense mass, about 10 million billion times that of a proton at rest. Placed on a table, a monopole would prove so heavy in relation to its size that it would fall through the table and plummet until it settled in the core of the earth. Described by scientists as "twists of space," monopoles are believed to have been formed during...