particleexperienceJul 16, 20194 min readSome Useful Jargon for your JourneyParticles and the Standard Model: The Standard Model: The 17 most fundamental particles in nature (from which all matter is composed) and...
particleexperienceJul 16, 20193 min readWhy You Should Have Paid Attention in Grade School -- Feynman DiagramsHaving established a recipe for analyzing the dynamic evolution of Quantum Mechanical systems, Feynman next turned his attention to the...
particleexperienceJul 16, 20193 min readTo Be Everywhere at Once -- The Path IntegralAlthough we needed to change our question from determining an exact path to determining the probability of any given path, it turns out...
particleexperienceJul 16, 20193 min readThe Death of Certainty -- The Birth of Quantum MechanicsThen came Quantum Mechanics. For more than one hundred years physicists studied the following problem: 1) Given the present position and...
particleexperienceJul 16, 20193 min readLights, Camera, Action! -- The Principle of Least Action and the LagrangianNow that we’re well acquainted with the characters in the play that is Particle Physics (the fundamental particles of the Standard...
particleexperienceJul 16, 20192 min readWhat do Charge, Color, and Flavor have in common? -- Fundamental InteractionsTo our knowledge there are four fundamental forces of nature. Electromagnetism, Strong Nuclear, Weak Nuclear, and Gravitational. All the...
particleexperienceJul 16, 20192 min readSpin Me Right Round -- Fermions and BosonsAlthough it may seem counter intuitive, the first quantum number we should discuss is spin. Sometimes associated with the top like...
particleexperienceJul 16, 20192 min readEverything = 17 -- Reductionism and the Standard ModelIf Particle Physics is the name of the game, the Standard Model is its cast of playable characters (just don’t get too comfortable, we...
