| Surrounding it is a cloud of electrons, which are small, light subatomic particles with a negative charge. |
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| While inversely charged subatomic particles were a lot harder to dodge than shotgun pellets, they still were painful to get hit by. |
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| Cosmic neutrinos are extremely high energy subatomic particles, like protons and electrons, but neutrinos have no electrical charge. |
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| Note that subatomic particles sometimes have antiparticles, with opposite charge and spin, that are the same ones going backwards in time. |
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| Atoms may acquire energy that excites electrons by random thermal collisions, collisions with subatomic particles, or by absorbing a photon. |
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| Rutherford proposed that it is made up of subatomic particles bearing a positive charge. |
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| The big bang theory of cosmology asserts that the universe was once a very small and very hot soup of energetic subatomic particles. |
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| Flying subatomic particles collide with other atoms in their path, knocking electrons out of their orbits. |
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| Research into the atom's nucleus has uncovered a variety of subatomic particles, including quarks and gluons. |
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| To study subatomic particles, physicists build giant accelerators that smash the particles together. |
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| Violent events such as stellar flares, supernovae and the explosion of galactic nuclei produce a concoction of subatomic particles, primarily protons and electrons. |
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| The term accelerators most commonly refers to particle accelerators, devices for increasing the velocity of subatomic particles such as protons, electrons, and positrons. |
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| The impact fragments include a wide range of subatomic particles as well as radioactive fragments of the original nucleus. |
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| Neutrons are subatomic particles that interact with the nuclei of atoms and with atomic magnetic fields. |
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| In turn, these decay into other subatomic particles, like kaons and pions. |
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| Turns out Williamsburg is not the best place to learn about subatomic particles. |
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| As particles collide at high energy, the collision energy becomes available for the creation of subatomic particles such as mesons and hyperons. |
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| Soon after, Abraham Pais was busy with theoretical research on subatomic particles and fields. |
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| They track the paths of subatomic particles in the aftermath of their impacts. |
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| Different numbers of these subatomic particles make atoms of different elements. |
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| I woud not be offended if you were to tell me: your description of subatomic particles in motion is meaningless! |
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| The weak and strong forces are effective only over a very short range and dominate only at the level of subatomic particles. |
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| Physicists learned most of what they know about the fundamental forces of nature by using larger and larger accelerators to smash subatomic particles together. |
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| Small subatomic particles such as photons, particles of light, and hypothetical particles called tachyons seem to have no problem reaching light speed. |
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| By the end of the novel, humanity has discovered an infinite number of universes bordering ours via nanoscopic wormholes whose mouths form subatomic particles. |
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| The LHC smashes together subatomic particles called protons in a 27km underground circular tunnel outside Geneva at within a whisker of the speed of light. |
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| The collisions melted protons and neutrons and liberated subatomic particles known as quarks and gluons. |
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| You can know everything you want about molecular structure and subatomic particles and never gain any insight at all about adaptation or the dynamics of populations or communities. |
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| Matter is made of subatomic particles such as electrons and protons etc. |
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| She goes on to reference Bell's theorem which supports the concept that subatomic particles are connected in some way that transcends time and space. |
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| Either something was profoundly wrong with our model of fusion reactions in the sun, or many of the elusive subatomic particles that are considered the basic building blocks of the universe somehow disappeared en route. |
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| Invisible, it is generated by subatomic particles or atomic nuclei. |
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| Their work is important for elementary particle physics and led to the discovery of three new families of subatomic particles, according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. |
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| The term ionizing radiation refers to those subatomic particles and photons whose energy is sufficient to cause ionization in the matter with which they interact. |
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| In such a condensate, atomic or subatomic particles share the same quantum state, amassing into what is, in essence, a single superparticle. |
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| A particle accelerator is a device that uses electric fields to accelerate ions or charge subatomic particles to high speeds in well-defined beams to bombard targets for research and isotope production. |
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| In theory, quarks are closely bound within a nucleon connected by gluons to create protons, neutrons and other subatomic particles. |
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| The experiment was to test quantum electrodynamics, a theory elaborated in the 1940s to describe the effect of the electromagnetic force on charged subatomic particles such as electrons or muons. |
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| A classmate and I started staying behind after science class to discuss subatomic particles with Mr. DeFelice, a wry, mostly gray-haired man who spoke in deliberate cadences that crescendoed at the end of each sentence. |
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| The physicist used his conjecture about subatomic particles to design an experiment. |
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| Higgs postulated that this field permeates space, giving mass to all elementary subatomic particles that interact with it. |
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| However this causes only a tiny portion of the masses of other subatomic particles, such as protons and neutrons. |
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| Science tells us that subatomic particles have wave functions yet actually have no existence unless someone views them. |
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| This theory describes the force that binds different quarks and antiquarks together to create protons, neutrons, and other subatomic particles. |
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| The energies of the beams soon will be precisely tuned to produce large quantities of heavy subatomic particles known as B mesons. |
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| The LHC collides two high-energy, unbelievably fast beams of elementary particles, so scientists can test scientific models on the interaction of subatomic particles. |
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| At the crossing point, some of these particles collide, producing tiny bursts of pure energy that materialize almost immediately as other subatomic particles called B mesons. |
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| In 1972, Kobayashi and Maskawa explained why an experiment eight yearsbefore had found that some subatomic particles called kaons failed to followthe rules of symmetry. |
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| The LHC spotted a particle last November that is very likely to be the Higgs boson, which could help explain why some subatomic particles have mass. |
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| The field of science which studies subatomic particles is particle physics, and it is in this field that physicists hope to discover the true fundamental nature of matter. |
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| Along with the electron and muon, the tau particle and three varieties of neutrinos are now firmly established as members of the lepton group of subatomic particles. |
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