“Recall our discussion of the pendulum. Its position at a given instant does not fix its subsequent behavior. Suppose a photograph shows… — Henning Genz Habits Copy Share Image
“Just as with sound waves, light waves emitted by a moving source show the Doppler effect. What we observe instead of the… — Henning Genz Quantum theory Copy Share Image
“The interpretation of apparent long-distance action by means of continuously propagating effects was vigorously asserted by Isaac Newton. In his wake, the… — Henning Genz Right now Copy Share Image
“The quantity that physicists call the specific heat of a substance is defined as the amount of energy needed to raise the… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“To gain any intuitive understanding of the breakdown of this ultimate symmetry through vacuum effects at the critical 10^-44 seconds after the… — Henning Genz Big bang Copy Share Image
“To illustrate this relation, think of a game of table tennis. As the ball hits the table, it will bounce up and… — Henning Genz Bouncing ball Copy Share Image
“Before the particles that we observe today materialized, all matter in the early universe must have gone through this stage of a… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“In physics terms, the reason for symmetry breaking is the instability of the symmetric state.” — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“What really transcends our understanding is the mechanism that permits these oscillations of abstract field quantities to carry energy. We know this… — Henning Genz Empty space Copy Share Image
“Chaotic or disordered distributions are symmetrical on the average. An observer cannot conclude anything about his location from looking around him. An… — Henning Genz Looking Around Copy Share Image
“The hotter a substance, the faster and the less ordered its molecular motion, and the larger the momentum with which molecules collide.… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“This elementary process is symbolically illustrated in figure 59c: A photon becomes an electron-positron pair; inversely, an electron and a positron can… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“John Maddox, the editor of the British journal Nature, had immediately suggested that the minister should be told that the Higgs boson… — Henning Genz Empty space Copy Share Image
“At first glance, it may appear odd that the black hole loses mass upon absorbing another mass-that of the electron. Actually, this… — Henning Genz Black hole Copy Share Image
“We can now infer that at this initial cooldown of the universe across the critical temperature of 10^15 degrees, a mini planetary… — Henning Genz Empty space Copy Share Image
“At the end of inflation, just as after the hot Big Bang, the universe is hot. It is, we might say, self-created… — Henning Genz Big bang Copy Share Image
“At a temperature of 10^10 degrees, the energy of the photons of the electromagnetic/thermal radiation becomes that needed for the creations of… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“To date we know only two real media that offer almost no resistance to moving bodies. One such medium was discovered in… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“The quarks were originally introduced as mathematical symbols-the carriers of certain properties that would facilitate mathematical understanding of elementary particles. This very… — Henning Genz Learning Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as an indestructible material object. Every particle that meets its antiparticle gives up its identity and becomes… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“When we cause two of one kind of particle- say, an electron and a positron-to collide, the final products might be totally… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“For all we know, the universe as a whole does not rotate. Now, the reader might ask, with respect to what should… — Henning Genz Books Copy Share Image
“In the process, we might remember that the ground state, the vacuum state of our world, doesn't display all the symmetries of… — Henning Genz Nature Copy Share Image
“By reversing the steps that we took to advance from the concept of substance to that of Materia Prima, we can imagine… — Henning Genz Empty space Copy Share Image
“The one thing we know is that planet Earth does keep moving in the direction of the constellation Leo at a rate… — Henning Genz Milky way Copy Share Image
