How To Discover Weird New Particles | Emergent Quantum Quasiparticles
This video is about weird condensed matter systems, aka materials that have bizarre emergent particles in them that are unlike most other particles in the universe. Thanks to the Moore Foundation...
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Physicists love particles, and with good reason – almost everything in the universeis made up of particles, so the physicist’s approach to understanding the universe isto understand the particles that make it up. If you want to discover and catalogue newparticles (which physicists do), here are three approaches you can take.First, you can take old particles we already know stuff about and just stick them togetherto build new *composite* particles. That’s what chemists and molecular biologists spenda lot of their time doing, and it’s kind of like figuring out what you can build withlegos.Second, you can smash old particles together with ever increasing violence, either hopingto break an old particle apart into previously unknown constituents or to excite a...
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Physicists love particles, and with good reason – almost everything in the universeis made up of particles, so the physicist’s approach to understanding the universe isto understand the particles that make it up. If you want to discover and catalogue newparticles (which physicists do), here are three approaches you can take.First, you can take old particles we already know stuff about and just stick them togetherto build new *composite* particles. That’s what chemists and molecular biologists spenda lot of their time doing, and it’s kind of like figuring out what you can build withlegos.Second, you can smash old particles together with ever increasing violence, either hopingto break an old particle apart into previously unknown constituents or to excite a...
