Scientists have determined that roughly 70% of the Universe is dark energy while Dark matter makes up about 25%. The normal matter or everything ever observed with all of our instruments adds up to less than 5% of the Universe. The evidence for the existence of Dark matter comes from the detained analysis of the … Read more
Compton scattering is a type of scattering that X-rays and gamma rays undergo in matter. The inelastic scattering of photons in matter results in a decrease in energy (increase in wavelength) of an X-ray or gamma ray photon, called the Compton Effect. Part of the energy of the X/gamma ray is transferred to a scattering … Read more
Quantum entanglement is the name that describes the way that particles can share information and interact with each other regardless of how far apart they are. For example an electron in certain atoms will spontaneously decay after being excited by emitting pairs of polarized photons such that one is aligned horizontally the other vertically. According … Read more
We have postulated throughout this blog that one can derive all the forces of nature by extrapolating the laws governing a three-dimensional environment to one made up of four *spatial* dimensions. If so one should be able to derive the strong force in those terms. The strong force, also known as the strong interaction, is the … Read more
As Brian Greene pointed out in his book “The Elegant Universe“, one of the unsolved mysteries of modern particle physics is why every fundamental particle encountered to date can be group into three families. “Physicists have recognized a pattern among these particles displayed in the following table. The matter particles neatly fall into three groups, … Read more