Some Useful Jargon for your Journey
Particles and the Standard Model: The Standard Model: The 17 most fundamental particles in nature (from which all matter is composed) and...
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Why You Should Have Paid Attention in Grade School -- Feynman Diagrams
Having established a recipe for analyzing the dynamic evolution of Quantum Mechanical systems, Feynman next turned his attention to the...
To Be Everywhere at Once -- The Path Integral
Although we needed to change our question from determining an exact path to determining the probability of any given path, it turns out...
The Death of Certainty -- The Birth of Quantum Mechanics
Then came Quantum Mechanics. For more than one hundred years physicists studied the following problem: 1) Given the present position and...
Lights, Camera, Action! -- The Principle of Least Action and the Lagrangian
Now that we’re well acquainted with the characters in the play that is Particle Physics (the fundamental particles of the Standard...
What do Charge, Color, and Flavor have in common? -- Fundamental Interactions
To our knowledge there are four fundamental forces of nature. Electromagnetism, Strong Nuclear, Weak Nuclear, and Gravitational. All the...
Spin Me Right Round -- Fermions and Bosons
Although it may seem counter intuitive, the first quantum number we should discuss is spin. Sometimes associated with the top like...
Everything = 17 -- Reductionism and the Standard Model
If Particle Physics is the name of the game, the Standard Model is its cast of playable characters (just don’t get too comfortable, we...
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