32 Quotes About Particles

There are no particles. There are only moments in time.

She figured that the main problem in physics is physicists, that most of them are caught in a mind trap because they're so used to things being made of smaller things. So they instinctively believe that reality, at its most basic level, must be made up of and regulated by almost infinitely small elementary particles.

CURIOSITY DEMANDS THAT WE ASK QUESTIONS,THAT WE TRY TO PUT THINGS TOGETHER AND TRY TO UNDERSTAND THIS MULTITUDE OF ASPECTSAS PERHAPS RESULTING FROM THE ACTION OF A RELATIVELY SMALL NUMBER OF ELEMENTALTHINGS AND FORCES ACTING IN AN INFINITE VARIETY OF COMBINATIONS

When does a wave behave like a particle?When one or more dimensions collapse to zero or nearly zero.Action in a field creates the spacetime it inhabits and dimensions, like particles, may be virtual.Gravity is a variation of scale and ratio is the only thing that is discrete.

A photon or an electron is not a thing, it is a description of a relationship.

If dimensions are created by the action in a field then the intersection of the point and plane are what gives us the point particle.

Particles are constantly winking in and out of existence, like tiny Cheshire cats.

When I received my B. S. degree in 1932, only two of the fundamental particles of physics were known.

We know that if supersymmetric particles exist, they must be very heavy; otherwise we would have spotted them by now.