Are these particles only mathematical conjecture? Are they the only way we have to make mathematical sense of the phenomenon we see in microscopic world?
2007-01-04 06:49:20 · 3 answers · asked by Spencer B 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Isolated quarks and gluons have not been seen directly and many expect them not to be becuase of something called 'confinement'. They are still there and can be detected in how they affect collisions of protons, for example. Fermions and bosons are more general types of particles. For example, electrons and neutrinos are fermions and photons are bosons. The W and Z particles are bosons that conduct the weak force and have been detected through their interactions with other particles.
2007-01-04 08:04:27 · answer #1 · answered by mathematician 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We have not much significant evidence pointing out that there is something smaller than the atom. Of course like the the olden days people didn't beleive there was anything smaller than an atom and it's components of the neutron and the proton. Until the electron was discovered, thanks to the technological advances in our society were we able to find out that there was such a thing as an electron. The gloun is alot like the electron, just because you don't see it that doesn't mean it's there right? This raises the question everything that we discover only brings us to even more complicated questions.
2007-01-04 07:13:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
They have all been seen in high energy collisions. They are not just mathematical conjectures.
2007-01-04 07:46:34 · answer #3 · answered by Gene 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋