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Does gravity have a particle?

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Is it possible to violate the Heisenberg uncertainty principle?

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What do physicists think of the philosopher’s concept of “gunk”? This is the idea that any particle must be made of even smaller particles. And so on. Is this what philosophers call a “trivial truth”? (Obviously true.)

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If a microcasuality violating particle exists, such as a virtual particle, does it mean that we cannot predict anything and science is over?

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Can a 5th dimension explain the instantaneous or FTL nature of the collapse of the quantum entangled properties of the particles?

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What would happen if I took a dump on twelve trillion tons of antimatter?

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Why do we use matter and not antimatter for power generation?

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If a box contains a collection of photons, does the box increase in rest mass (relative to an empty box of the same size)? And if the box with photons has greater rest mass, does this imply that photons have rest mass?

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How is the term "energy-momentum density" like an electron, or is it an electron?

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What experiments show that particles have mass and not just energy?

asked Mar 18, 2023 in Particle Physics by EthericSculptor

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While string theory predicts particles in the Standard Model consist of even smaller constituents, are there theories that predict heavy elementary particles beyond Higgs boson (126 GeV/c^2) and top quark (173 GeV/c^2)?

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How are gravity and mass related?

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Can both of my eyes ever see the same photon? Isn't a photon actually an expanding wave-sphere?

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Can particles be entangled with each other no matter what they are made from or where they are located on Earth?

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What really are photons, and what do they do?

asked Mar 17, 2023 in Particle Physics by mloughrey

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If beta particles can't travel deeper than an inch into a material, how does a PET scanner work?

asked Mar 17, 2023 in Particle Physics by Bobtheman

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If there is electricity, and positrons are the opposite of electrons, is there positricity? If so, how does it react? Do insulators conduct it?

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Can you explain entangled particles and entanglement without using any math?

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Is there an opposite particle from conduction electrons?

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Why, in beta-decay, does a neutron turn into a proton?

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