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'Metaphysics', 'Letters to Leibniz' and 'Why the Universe Exists'
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 1. Relativity / b. General relativity
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In the Big Bang general relativity fails, because gravity is too powerful [New Sci.]
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / a. Electrodynamics
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Quantum electrodynamics incorporates special relativity and quantum mechanics [New Sci.]
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Photons have zero rest mass, so virtual photons have infinite range [New Sci.]
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields
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In the standard model all the fundamental force fields merge at extremely high energies [New Sci.]
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / c. Electrons
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Electrons move fast, so are subject to special relativity [New Sci.]
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 3. Chromodynamics / a. Chromodynamics
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The strong force is repulsive at short distances, strong at medium, and fades at long [New Sci.]
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Gluons, the particles carrying the strong force, interact because of their colour charge [New Sci.]
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The strong force binds quarks tight, and the nucleus more weakly [New Sci.]
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 3. Chromodynamics / b. Quarks
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Three different colours of quark (as in the proton) can cancel out to give no colour [New Sci.]
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Quarks in threes can build hadrons with spin ½ or with spin 3/2 [New Sci.]
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Classifying hadrons revealed two symmetry patterns, produced by three basic elements [New Sci.]
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / b. Standard model
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The four fundamental forces (gravity, electromagnetism, weak and strong) are the effects of particles [New Sci.]
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The weak force explains beta decay, and the change of type by quarks and leptons [New Sci.]
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Three particles enable the weak force: W+ and W- are charged, and Z° is not [New Sci.]
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The weak force particles are heavy, so the force has a short range [New Sci.]
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Why do the charges of the very different proton and electron perfectly match up? [New Sci.]
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The Standard Model cannot explain dark energy, survival of matter, gravity, or force strength [New Sci.]
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / c. Particle properties
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Spin is a built-in ration of angular momentum [New Sci.]
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Quarks have red, green or blue colour charge (akin to electric charge) [New Sci.]
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Fermions, with spin ½, are antisocial, and cannot share quantum states [New Sci.]
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Spin is akin to rotation, and is easily measured in a magnetic field [New Sci.]
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Particles are spread out, with wave-like properties, and higher energy shortens the wavelength [New Sci.]
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / d. Mass
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The mass of protons and neutrinos is mostly binding energy, not the quarks [New Sci.]
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Gravitional mass turns out to be the same as inertial mass [New Sci.]
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / e. Protons
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Neutrons are slightly heavier than protons, and decay into them by emitting an electron [New Sci.]
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Top, bottom, charm and strange quarks quickly decay into up and down [New Sci.]
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / f. Neutrinos
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Neutrinos were proposed as the missing energy in neutron beta decay [New Sci.]
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Only neutrinos spin anticlockwise [New Sci.]
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / g. Anti-matter
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Standard antineutrinos have opposite spin and opposite lepton number [New Sci.]
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 5. Unified Models / a. Electro-weak unity
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The symmetry of unified electromagnetic and weak forces was broken by the Higgs field [New Sci.]
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 5. Unified Models / b. String theory
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String theory is now part of 11-dimensional M-Theory, involving p-branes [New Sci.]
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String theory might be tested by colliding strings to make bigger 'stringballs' [New Sci.]
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String theory offers a quantum theory of gravity, by describing the graviton [New Sci.]
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Supersymmetric string theory can be expressed using loop quantum gravity [New Sci.]
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 5. Unified Models / c. Supersymmetry
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Only supersymmetry offers to incorporate gravity into the scheme [New Sci.]
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Supersymmetry says particles and superpartners were unities, but then split [New Sci.]
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The evidence for supersymmetry keeps failing to appear [New Sci.]
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Supersymmetry has extra heavy bosons and heavy fermions [New Sci.]
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