“The orthodox interpretation offers no explanation as to why everyday objects never assume quantum mechanical states that do not allow a classical… — Henning Genz Interpretation Copy Share Image
“The oscillations-or waves-mandated by the Goldstone theorem originate in the application of symmetry operations to small domains.” — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“While the effective electrical charge of a proton decreases with distance, the strength of the effective color charge of a quark increases… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“Certain macroscopic objects directly display quantum mechanical effects. Superconductors and neutron stars-the latter behaving like atomic nuclei with a six-mile diameter-are macroscopic… — Henning Genz Physics Copy Share Image
“Of all the material objects we know, quasars are closest to lucretius's javelin. Quasars are galaxies in early stage of evolution. The… — Henning Genz 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
“In general, the removal of energy from gravitationally bound systems accelerates the movement of their components. This also goes for systems whose… — Henning Genz Energy Copy Share Image
“If all of the presently observable universe pooled its matter to create one giant black hole, its radius measured in light-years would… — Henning Genz Black hole Copy Share Image
“Newton, whose thinking we will discuss in the next chapter, considers the universe as infinite in extent. Gravitation would have all masses… — Henning Genz Gravitation Copy Share Image
“Charges induce properties in the space surrounding them which can be observed experimentally. If we enter a test charge into an electric… — Henning Genz 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
“Once the thermal radiation reaches the surface temperature of the Sun-some 6000 degrees Celsius-we perceive it as white light. At still higher… — Henning Genz White light Copy Share Image
“Galaxies, quasars among them, are interpreted by astrophysicists in terms of probes that are attached to points in space and that move… — Henning Genz Big bang 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
“There is field for every particle. If that field is concentrated in some spatial region, the particle of that field is likely… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“Insofar as the general theory of relativity follows Mach's ideas, it can be seen as expressing the distribution of masses in terms… — Henning Genz Blank canvas Copy Share Image
“SYMMETRY BREAKING The preferential direction fixed by this spontaneous symmetry breaking will now determine which among the elementary particles will share in… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“The energy of the vacuumin the universe presents us with a dilemma: We know, on the one hand, that this energy must… — Henning Genz Energy Copy Share Image
“What is important here is that for every given curvature there are precisely fixed masses. And since we recall that the virtual… — Henning Genz Space Copy Share Image
“We associate two different terms with this phenomenon: asymptotic freedom and infrared slavery. At one end of the scale, the short distances,… — Henning Genz Building blocks Copy Share Image
“It is not only the theory of inflation that tells us we don't know all of the masses in the universe. In… — Henning Genz Long ago Copy Share Image
“Positional, or potential energy, is the energy we add to a rock when we lift it from the floor and put it… — Henning Genz Energy Copy Share Image
“The energy that was hidden in the false vacuum is liberated in the course of this phase transition of the universe into… — Henning Genz Big bang Copy Share Image
“The Higgs field originated as the universe cooled down after the Big Bang-a bit like the crystallization of ice as water cools… — Henning Genz Big bang Copy Share Image
“We recall that the term inflation stands for the explosive growth of the universe by a factor of 10^50 in the time… — Henning Genz Big bang Copy Share Image
“Considering the energy balance, the reduction in size and the rise in temperature of the black hole form a feedback mechanism that… — Henning Genz Black hole Copy Share Image
“To date, we don't know of any object that cannot, for certain, be subdivided. The chemist's atom consists of nucleus and electrons;… — 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
“As long as two fields that describe one and the same space are identified, the field and the space can be used… — Henning Genz Empty space Copy Share Image
“REALITY OF ZERO-POINT ENERGY The uncertainty relation implies that there cannot be a region in space totally devoid of electromagnetic fields. They… — Henning Genz 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 Chaos Copy Share Image
“A space that is empty in the sense that it doesn't contain masses is nothing but a special case of the above.… — 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 Earth Copy Share Image
“If there weren't any charges, there would be neither absorption nor emission nor any scattering. Light would not impact on the matter… — Henning Genz Goals Copy Share Image
“Just as photons are scattered off the charged particle-antiparticle pairs fluctuating in the vacuum, electrical charges will interact with the virtual photons… — Henning Genz First place 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
