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How did it come about that protons are more massive than electrons despite having almost identical charge? Are protons and electrons' masses really only different by one part in ten thousand?

asked May 16, 2023 in Particle Physics by pearcy

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What is the best path for someone who wants to get into particle physics but doesn't want to go through grad school yet?

asked May 16, 2023 in Particle Physics by Baris Kara

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How do the detectors in the double slit experiment work? Not the photomultiplier at the end of the experiment, the ones within (or near) the slits.

asked May 16, 2023 in Particle Physics by hill_terry

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What limits photon to travel faster than constant c, if it is a massless particle?

asked May 15, 2023 in Particle Physics by RadiantVerse

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How does light have momentum without having any mass? Isn't that a contradiction?

asked May 15, 2023 in Particle Physics by hershal

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Is there such thing as photon decay?

asked May 15, 2023 in Particle Physics by mlpropertyservices

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What is the difference between the Boltzmann distribution for Fermi particles and Bose particles?

asked May 15, 2023 in Particle Physics by apl

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Why do protons, electrons and neutrons exist? Where do they come from?

asked May 15, 2023 in Particle Physics by QuantumHorizon

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Why are we so sure that photons are massless when we know our measurements are imperfect? Since photons exhibit characteristics of massive objects, wouldn't it better to assume their mass is just too small for our current instruments to measure?

asked May 15, 2023 in Particle Physics by SeraphicHarmony

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How does dark matter interact with regular matter and other particles?

asked May 15, 2023 in Particle Physics by AstralFlare

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Particle entanglement says distance between particles is irrelevant for one to affect the other instantaneously. What if the particles are a light year apart? Does that mean the speed of light really isn’t the universal speed limit?

asked May 15, 2023 in Particle Physics by CelestialAlchemy

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Do scientists yet understand why light behaves as a wave sometimes and a particle other times?

asked May 15, 2023 in Particle Physics by Mr Lahey

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How can subatomic particles touch each other if they have no size?

asked May 15, 2023 in Particle Physics by Abrickie

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How do neutrinos interact with magnets or even gravity if they have no charge?

asked May 14, 2023 in Particle Physics by Hell68

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Can the particle/wave duality be reframed as mass/energy?

asked May 14, 2023 in Particle Physics by toffee

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What is a subatomic particle, and what defines a particle? Are we just observing waves at different states that sometimes exhibit the properties of a particles?

asked May 14, 2023 in Particle Physics by m3 fitter - ascott

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What is the mass spectrography?

asked May 14, 2023 in Particle Physics by Little Ern

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How many protons, neutrons, and electrons are in chlorine 37?

asked May 13, 2023 in Particle Physics by Nas

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Why can't photons be localized as wavepackets the way massive particles can? What specifically goes wrong in the math if we try to model them this way?

asked May 13, 2023 in Particle Physics by IanS1988

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Can massless particles exist without something having no mass at all to make them up?

asked May 13, 2023 in Particle Physics by Ryananthonyyy

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