Recent content by davidmerritt

I certainly don't consider them to be the same, but in the UK I wouldn't hesitate to say the strongest universities in astrophysics tend (very strongly) to be whose with excellent research programmes in Particle Physics, and again Manchester is a classic example of this. I think the UK and...

Indeed they do. I think here it's more an attitude towards research, both are high expenditure areas, taking Manchester as an example, they have the Jodrell Bank telescope (I think it's still the largest in the UK) whilst spending significant amounts of money on Particle Physics research...

There are loads of jobs for qualified physics grads, meterology (weather forecasting), weapons / aerospace design, particle Physics careers (CERN, SLAC etc..), financial services, accouting, actuary, teaching etc... Lots of physics grad I know have kept in academia (which in the UK is...

There are loads of jobs for qualified physics grads, meterology (weather forecasting), weapons / aerospace design, particle Physics careers (CERN, SLAC etc..), financial services, accouting, actuary, teaching etc... Lots of physics grad I know have kept in academia (which in the UK is...

In the UK. Cambridge, Oxford, Durham, Manchester are the leaders IMO. Surely Cambridge must be in the top ten internationally for Particle Physics, with Manchester and Durham close behing, their past laureates look like a who's who in the foundations of understanding particles.

Excellent I'll post them sometime soon... just thought I'd add one or two of my links on the topic of the standard model and EPP :approve: UK particle physics and astronomy research council http://www.pparc.ac.uk University College London's course on Particle and Nuclear physics...

Just thought I'd post answering some of the questions I asked above. Been reading up today. The colour can be seen as a type of charge it seems, with chronodynamics explaining the forces between quarks of different colours. Hence the colours and neutrality are important to explain how quarks...

Cheers for the help , I've been digging out some elementary particle physics notes. Particle physics is a very interesting topic, though the level of detail is higher than other topics in physics in my opinion. The main textbook I use (University Physics with Modern Physics by Young and...

Hello, trying to get my head around the (MANY) particles I'm learning about at the moment. First question is about quark colours. I understand the different types of quark (up , down, strange, charmed, bottom and top) but I don't understand how the colours work, why is it necesary for the...

I'd strongly disagree with the idea that 'testing for randomness is a simple statistical matter' as it isn't. You can't say anything is random, you can only postulate that it is. Just becuase a distribution looks random or normal for that matter will ultimately be derived from deterministic...

well i think the New Scientist website may have the article on their sometime soon http://www.newscientist.com/ It sounds quite strange, and it leads you ask how serious questions about gravity. The comments above are accurate, the work on the topic sketchy at best, though in the following...

dextercioby I wouldn't say it was a massive step from his particle scattering experiments, though it would have been interesting to work in Rutherfords lab during his time(P.s. I did my degree at the University of Manchester i.e. where rutherford did his work, lol they have a lecture theatre...

Check the reference I gave in the above post, it should clear things up for you. You don't need to look at the Schrodinger equation to consider the Bohr model. Specifically look at page 1462 in the 11th edition. If your at high school you don't really need to be looking at the Schrodinger...

Just wondered if anyone read this weeks New Scientist and more to the point the article on gravity. Aparently experiments have shown that pendulums behave irratically during a solar eclipse, and hence this has lead to some scientist questioning the laws of gravity and the work of Einstien...

Yeah that's how I understand the Bohr model too, Bohr postulated that electrons in atoms can only move around a nucleus in certain circular orbits which are stable without radiating energy. Each orbit has a definite energy level associated with it, and hence energy is only radiated when...