i heard if zoom in more in more and look into and atom you will find quarks and if you zoom more and more you will find that there is nothing there, so matter is just an illusion?
No one is currently certain. The Standard Model predicts that mass comes from the Higg's boson and the LHC was built to look for it.
String Theory predicts that if you zoom in enough you will find little strings of energy that make up all particles. Like the Higg's boson no one has ever observed these strings.
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"Strings of energy." What energy? "Spatial" energy? Is matter ultimately space twisted into Planck-size "strands"?
Do physicists understand (even if theoretcially) how space, matter and strings all piece together?
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Last edited by Mindship on Nov 14th, 2010 at 07:45 PM
I think your referring to atoms with the "empty space" bit.
These snippets are taken from the link below.
An atom isn't just tiny, it's over 99.9% empty space. All the weight of an atom is concentrated in a mind-numbingly tiny object at its centre. It's a trillionth of a centimetre across and is called the nucleus.
If you removed all the empty space from the atoms that make up all the humans on the planet, then you could fit all 6 billion of us inside a single apple.
The standard model is extremely well tested. All of the parts in it have been shown experimentally except for the Higgs Boson. It's popular precisely because it matches up with reality so well.
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If you zoom in enough you'll just start seeing the Universe again. Kinda like that Futurama episode where Universe A is inside a box from Universe B that's inside the box from Universe A that's... etc.
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"except for the Higgs Boson" the Higgs boson IS the key part to this whole idea, that a mysterious particle causes energy to clump into matter. I hope they find it, but I think something even more weird and confusing might turn up.
I am planning to construct a thinking map, such that, I will be able to take in, at a glance, all the key terms involved in the concept of an eigenstate, this hopefully enabling me to integrate all component concepts into a comprehensible definition.
Until then, my use of the word is in (probable) hiatus.
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I remember reading that Yale or Harvard shot a long range laser and separated it into two different directions and when they manipulated one of the forked beams the opposite one did the exact same thing.
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Nov 14th, 2010 06:30 PM
Now, that brings back memories.
