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Undergrad How come there are no neutron atoms?
O.K,what sort of "atom" should we get from an uncharged nucleus?.What sort of chemistry would you expect?.Study the issue.Read Pais,"Inward Bound" and study the references at the chapter ends.Imagine a world with electromagnetism "switched-off",and then compare the proton/neutron.Are they...- mssmatthelhc
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- Forum: High Energy, Nuclear, Particle Physics
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High School What is the physical appearance of a proton?
I just read Bob S about the Mark III and the Stanford experiments of Hofstadter.They were beautiful experiments,and Hofstedter richly deserved the 1961 Nobel.Annual Reviews contains his take,as well as an early volume from the old Benjamin-Cummings "Frontiers In Physics" series.These experiments...- mssmatthelhc
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- Forum: High Energy, Nuclear, Particle Physics
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High School What is the physical appearance of a proton?
What ANYTHING "looks like" is really a function of its Compton wavelength.I mean,the ratio of "h-bar/momentum".That's as good as it gets.Start by calculating,say,the Compton wavelength of the Earth for example,then,work yer way "down" to smaller and smaller critters.The attempts to give a...- mssmatthelhc
- Post #41
- Forum: High Energy, Nuclear, Particle Physics