Today's particle physics describe light as a crumple in space, and we may have deformed space in such a way that they noticed something peculiar - and they had the ability to investigate it.

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We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world.

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Spreading out the particle into a string is a step in the direction of making everything we're familiar with fuzzy. You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to.

quote by Edward Witten
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All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.

quote by Alberto Giacometti
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My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators.

quote by Simon van der Meer
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Raindropp On The Eye Of The Wounded

'A dream
As a particle in eyes
Remains as tear
Wounded desire'

wounded
tears fall and
to mark the
anniversary
of pain,

dew at the
middle of
the leaf,

eyes getting
to know
another water
form,

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poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Having those extra dimensions and therefore many ways the string can vibrate in many different directions turns out to be the key to being able to describe all the particles that we see.

quote by Edward Witten
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The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

quote by James Joseph Sylvester
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The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods.

quote by Cecil Frank Powell
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Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue.

quote by Henry James
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Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

quote by Henry James
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The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you.

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Kill Shot

i'm accelerating particle personalities.
i want to know what happens

when they collide.
i want to create

new character
in never

before known
blast of wonder

mushrooming

sudden gamma
death brighter

than solar flare
felt bare-eyed

poem by Doug Bentley
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.

quote by Victor Francis Hess
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At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.

quote by Johannes Stark
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If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures?

quote by Martin Gardner
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My Breath To The Atmosphere

this is my breath
against the sun against the light
particles of water
from my throat
complete with the virus
and the germs
of my oral existence
do you like to catch it?
airborne some people are dying
without their knowing.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Kosmic Artist

to a particle physicist
the sub-atomic level

is an easel
sprayed

by some crazy artist
whose name

is written in every
infinitesimal detail

so not even a physicist
can fail to recognize

the Intelligence
always presumed

to be energy.
not that

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poem by Doug Bentley
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Infinite Consciousness

Perception of solidity
is the brain’s interpretation of
various frequencies

Received as biochemical and
electrical signals from the
physical senses

Which the mind weaves into
the beautiful illusions of
reality

Consciousness energy creates the
universe by projecting through
the interference patterns of
waves of energy

We and all we perceive are manifestations
of the consciousness which created
this - our universe

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poem by Margaret Alice Second
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My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science.

quote by Andrei Sakharov
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