#particles

Technically you need the extra dimensions. At first people didn't like them too much, but they've got a big benefit, which is that the ability of string theory to describe all the elementary particles and their forces along with gravity depends on using the extra dimensions. ↗

— Edward Witten

#along #benefit #big #depends #describe

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. ↗

— Simon van der Meer

#contacts #directly #growing #handling #interest

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. ↗

— Andrei Sakharov

#concerns #connected #contribution #cosmology #elementary

You have that one basic string, but it can vibrate in many ways. But we're trying to get a lot of particles because experimental physicists have discovered a lot of particles. ↗

— Edward Witten

#because #discovered #experimental #get #lot

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. ↗

— Werner Heisenberg

#physics #quantum #reality #science #strange

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#physics #quantum #reality #science #strange

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles. ↗

— John Tyndall

#consecutive #existence #life #life is a #moments

Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

#built #creators #fellow #fellow men #human

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. ↗

— Victor Francis Hess

#capable #carried #enables #energy #extension

Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge. ↗

— Carl D. Anderson

#both #charge #counting #electric #great