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The Einstein Theory of Relativity
atom. Heisenberg wished to understand what elementary particles were and to unearth the common root of all natural phenomena.
Benjamin Labatut • When We Cease to Understand the World
We have been seeking a Mendeléev-type chart for the new particles. One such chart of the new particles was made independently by Gell-Mann in the USA and Nishijima in Japan. The basis of their classification is a new number, like the electric charge, which can be assigned to each particle, called its “strangeness,” S. This number is conserved, like
... See moreRobert B. Leighton • Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
< 1, where r is a radial coordinate measured from the origin.
Sean M. Carroll • The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
On early scientific discoveries: To peer into the nucleus and discover a new and important phenomenon that no one had ever glimpsed “was like the trembling of the veil that poets write about,” Wilczek says. “Something was stirring deep in the heart of nature.”
Gabriel Popkin • The Universe According to Frank Wilczek - John Templeton Foundation
On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies