Now we can practically convert energy into mass with full efficiency of E=mc2. The credit for this full efficiency goes to antimatter. When matter and antimatter come into contact, they annihilate each other and convert their mass into 100% energy. But what are antimatter? Antimatter are the opposites of matter. They are identical in allContinueContinue reading “What Are Antimatters?”
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What Happened At The Big Bang?
Basically almost everyone including myself until recently think that the Big Bang was the most powerful explosion ever like a hyper giant firecracker and then matter spreading through space. But this idea has been mutated to make the general public understand. What the Big Bang Theory states is much, much weirder thank you think. So,ContinueContinue reading “What Happened At The Big Bang?”
Where Does Your Mass Come From?
For some of you who are science fans, when I ask the above question you might answer that our mass comes from the Higgs boson. You are probably right. But that’s not the whole story though. Higgs boson gives mass to the elementary particles like quarks, leptons and bosons. And we are all made ofContinueContinue reading “Where Does Your Mass Come From?”
Bosons – The Force Carrying Particles
The Standard Model of Particle Physics has three different types of particles – quarks, leptons and bosons. We have covered the first two types i.e. quarks and leptons. So, today let’s learn about bosons. Bosons are the force carrying particles. There are five different types of bosons known to us – photon (carrier of electromagneticContinueContinue reading “Bosons – The Force Carrying Particles”
Neutrino – The Ghostly Particle
Neutrinos are ghostly particles. They can change their identities. They have mass of about one-millionth of the mass of electron. Also, they are neutral and interact only via the nuclear weak force and gravity. Think of this, if we take the strength of nuclear strong force as 1, electromagnetism’s strength is 10^-2, nuclear weak force’sContinueContinue reading “Neutrino – The Ghostly Particle”
What Are Leptons?
Leptons are one of the three types of particles of Standard Model of Particle Physics. The three groups are quarks, leptons and bosons. Like quarks, leptons have two groups i.e. charged leptons and neutrinos. Charged leptons consists of electron, muon and tau. And neutrino group consists of electron neutrino, muon neutrino and tau neutrino. AmongContinueContinue reading “What Are Leptons?”
Why There Can’t Be An Isolated Quark?
Quarks and leptons may have many similarities like they are part of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Also, they are one of the most elementary particles. But they have a big difference. There can be a free isolated leptons like electron but there can’t be an isolated, free quark. Imagine this, there is noContinueContinue reading “Why There Can’t Be An Isolated Quark?”
What Are Quarks?
Protons and neutrons are no longer the smallest known particles. There is the Standard Model of Particle Physics- the most complete theory of the smallest particle we have now. In this theory, it deals with three groups of particle – quarks, leptons and bosons. But, what are quarks? Quarks are one of the most elementaryContinueContinue reading “What Are Quarks?”
Light DOES NOT Travel In a Straight Line!!!
In school, you are shown an experiment in which you take three cardboards with pinholes in them, place on one side and look from the other side. If the flame of the candle and the three pinholes are in a straight line, you can see the candle. Even if one of them is displaced aContinueContinue reading “Light DOES NOT Travel In a Straight Line!!!”
Types of Radiation
Radiation is a scary word for most people – even scarier than ghosts. We have heard radiation is dangerous and it is really harmful. But what exactly is radiation? Radiation is the emission of energy by an atom. There are two types of radiation – electromagnetic radiation and nuclear radiation. Electromagnetic radiation consists of radioContinueContinue reading “Types of Radiation”
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