Particle Physics Timeline
For over two thousand years people have thought about the fundamental particles from which all matter is made, starting with the gradual development of atomic theory, followed by a deeper understanding of the quantized atom, leading to the recent theory of the Standard Model.
You can use the index below to find more information about a specific person or event.
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2006-12-04 06:54:05
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answer #1
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answered by DanE 7
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The Higgs Boson has not something to do with God, the connection with it being the God Particle is that that is believed to be what supplies us mass, with out it there may be no count clumping mutually to type stars and planets, no us, not something in any respect hence the allusion the transition from not something to some thing state in Genesis of the bible. It does not teach if there is or isn't a God. The scientists sought for it because of the fact it rather is a particle that modern theories say could exist yet we've in no way detected in the previous. there is not any stages which you're taking medical discoveries to, on the organic technology front we try to think of of different predictions made by making use of our modern theories and take a investigate to disprove them. the real exhilaration comes whilst scientist proves modern theories are incorrect because of the fact it rather is whilst new theories would desire to be progressed. From the engineering attitude, we proceed to objective and use the present theories in procedures that would income us, whilst the theories are shown incorrect, engineers attempt to understand whilst the theory breaks down so as that they recognize whilst to not use an erroneous concept. you are going to be rather limited to think of that is approximately proving if there is or isn't a God.
2016-12-18 07:20:49
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answered by wetzel 4
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he idea that all matter is composed of elementary particles dates to at least the 6th century BC. The philosophical doctrine of atomism was studied by ancient Greek philosophers such as Leucippus, Democritus, and Epicurus. In the 19th century John Dalton, through his work on stoichiometry, concluded that each element of nature was composed of a single, unique type of particle. Dalton and his contemporaries believed these were the fundamental particles of nature and thus named them atoms, after the Greek word atomos, meaning "indivisible". However, near the end of the century, physicists discovered that atoms were not, in fact, the fundamental particles of nature, but conglomerates of even smaller particles.
The early 20th century explorations of nuclear physics and quantum physics culminated in proofs of nuclear fission in 1939 by Lise Meitner (based on experiments by Otto Hahn), and nuclear fusion by Hans Bethe in the same year. These discoveries gave rise to an active industry of generating one atom from another, even rendering possible (although not profitable) the transmutation of lead into gold. They also led to the development of nuclear weapons.
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, a bewildering variety of particles was found in scattering experiments. This was referred to as the "particle zoo". This term was deprecated after the formulation of the Standard Model during the 1970s in which the large number of particles was explained as combinations of a (relatively) small number of fundamental particles.
2006-12-04 07:11:05
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answered by chanljkk 7
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the first sceintist to use particles in atheory i think was issac newton it was on his theory of light he thought light traveled as a line of aprticles he was wrong of course but i thin khe was the first to use in a theory im not sure though.
2006-12-04 07:10:29
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answer #4
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answered by mex 2
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Rutherford was an important figure, but although he did lots of work on particle theory, he got his attomic moddles wrong.
2006-12-04 07:04:33
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answer #5
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answered by Graeme K 2
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J.J. Thomson (also sometimes erroniously Thompson)
1856 -1940
2006-12-04 09:08:33
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answer #6
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answered by bubsir 4
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