#physics of particles

[myjetpack]

My latest cartoon for New Scientist

[maybeinanotherworld]

physics professors are really going through it- every day, I think about my quantum physics professor who once went on a rant about how there's too many types of mustard these days followed by the words "well, at least quantum physics is less complicated than the mustard aisle" followed by one of the most cursed derivations I have ever seen

[mysharona1987]

[elementcattos]

OMG Particle

The Oh-My-God Particle was a cosmic ray detected OTD in 1991 and the most energetic one ever observed. It's thought to have likely been a proton travelling at 99.99999999999999999999951% of the speed of light, which is gargantuan even by cosmic ray standards. The reason for what made it travel so quickly is unknown. Must've been a wild event!

[toastling]

[mindblowingscience]

Scientists have made a satisfying and intriguing physics discovery some 16 years after it was first predicted to be a possibility: a quasiparticle (a group of particles behaving as one) that only has an effective mass when moving in one direction. In physics, mass generally refers to a property of particles that relates to things like their energy and resistance to movement. Yet not all mass is built the same – some describes the energy of a particle at rest, for example, while mass may also take into account the energy of a particle's motion. In this case, the effective mass describes the quasiparticle's response to forces, which varies depending on whether the movement through the material is up and down, or back and forth. Whereas regular quasiparticles have the same mass no matter what their direction of travel, the semi-Dirac fermion (to give it its technical name) being studied here doesn't seem to play by the normal rules.

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[xponentialdesign]

Attracted to the Core

[myjetpack]

My latest cartoon for New Scientist.

[minmin-vs-physics]

[6/8/24] i got a result for my calculations,,,, but at what cost? Mathematica was being mean to me so i ended up graphing it on desmos instead which told me that my code wasn’t wrong,,,, i just didn’t expect the results! anyway, idk what to tell my prof bc i got this far without having the faintest clue abt what quantum mechanics is!

i did find a cool new study nook in one of my favourite buildings tho. might abandon my office in its favour

[shitacademicswrite]

[natalieironside]

We used to think it was all particles, but then we looked under the particles and y'know what's down there? Fields. All kinds of fields I never even heard of.

[spaghettiwoman46]

Ugh they are always doing this

[agenericplaceholdername]

"Motion, used correctly, can be more powerful than sheer strength"

"Force and strength work counter to the motion of the world. The universe has its own speeds you need to align with"

"You can never force the motion of the universe to bend to your will"

"We must force the progress we need! Force the world to work the way you want it to!"

One of these teachings is not like the other...

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

Bigger Particles Slide Farther

Mudslides and avalanches typically carry debris of many shapes and sizes. To understand how debris size affects flows like these, researchers use simplified, laboratory-scale experiments like this one.  (Video and image credit: S. Burnett et al.) Read the full article