MetaFilter posts tagged with particles

Flash Friday: Auditorium

closetphilosopher — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:54:03 -0800

Auditorium is a musical flash game where you influence a stream of particles with gravity-based nodes. A steady stream of particles past a collector enables a layer of music. Good fun! Via Jay is Games

Soft Science

sergeant sandwich — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:01:34 -0800

If you like those giant plush microbes but maybe they're a little too life-sciencey for ya, perhaps you would like The Particle Zoo instead.

Quantum Mechanics: Myths and Facts

XMLicious — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:21:29 -0800

Quantum Mechanics: Myths and Facts (pdf), a recently-updated paper on the Cornell arXiv peer-review site. By Hrvoje Nikolić of the Rudjer Bošković Institute in Croatia. Note: the presence of a paper on arXiv does not necessarily mean it has been reviewed and is not equivalent to having been published in a journal.

People have long asked, "What is the world made of?" and "What holds it together?"

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:06:41 -0800

The Particle Adventure.

clouds without dust!

jessamyn — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:06:38 -0800

The cloud chamber may no longer the particle detector of choice (that would be the bubble chamber) but easy to build yourself (in modern or vintage style) and watch cosmic rays in the comfort of your own home.

Strange Charm

Gyan — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 15:30:36 -0800

Visualization of particle physics [via]

Cosmic rays

MzB — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 06:17:19 -0800

Cosmic ray air shower simulations (do not miss the movies)

Armageddon was a walk in the park...

NotMyselfRightNow — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 08:37:19 -0800

Because spaceflight, in and of itself, is just way to easy. On 08 August 2001, NASA launched Genesis. It was a spacecraft that would spend 1125 days in space, including 884 days collecting 0.4 milligrams of solar particles. At that point, it would launch a 500 lbs return vehicle that would travel 600 mph back to earth. When it enters the atmosphere, at approximately 11:55am EST on Wednesday of this week, it will be going close to twenty-five thousand mph. Oddly enough, this is the easy part of the mission.

Because then, two minutes later, NASA is going to catch it. In mid-air. With a helicopter. Really.

joshua — Tue, 11 Dec 2001 16:27:45 -0800

Science may be left totally unable to explain mass. "The most saught after oject particle in physics, the Higgs boson, may not even exist." As devistating as it sounds to science, I just couldn't help but laugh.

Optamystic — Fri, 09 Feb 2001 23:57:32 -0800

"The Standard Model" of the universe takes a hit.
Score one for string theorists. Scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory appear to have discovered a new type of subatomic particle that would disprove the currently accepted model for the nature of space and matter.

grumblebee — Fri, 21 Jul 2000 08:58:33 -0800

After a two-decade search, scientists have found the first direct evidence of one of the most elusive and ghostly subatomic particles in nature -- the tau neutrino.