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LIGHT + QUANTUM PARTICLES + QUANTUM MECHANICS + QUANTUM PHYSICS + QUANTUM TUNNELING + QUANTUM COMPUTERS + QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT + ZERO POINT ENERGY + SCHRODINGER'S CAT + HEISENBERG, THE DOUBLE SLIT EXPERIMENT AND QUANTUM WEIRDNESS + ZENO EFFECT + ANTIMATTER + MISCELLANEOUS

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LIGHT


Could someone give a description of a 'photon'?
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What is light, really? Is it made out of molecules or atoms, or something more basic?
Light is not really a wave or a particle. It is a quantum thingy.
I see a bright light...
and
Let there be light
Concerning light
How do they measure the speed of light?

Does light have mass? If not, how can it be bent by gravity?
Light has no rest mass, but it has momentum. It appears to bend because of curved spacetime.
Does light have mass?
Light, mass, momentum and gravity
Photons
Light and gravity.
Does a photon of light contain all frequencies of light eg: white light - or do individual photons contain one frequency eg: red photons, green photons, blue photons etc? Or does each photon contain a few frequencies?
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QUANTUM PARTICLES



List and details of ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
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What is a quark?
One of several types of fundamental particles which make up matter.
UNIVERSE
THOSE WACKY PARTICLES
QUARKS
TUTORIAL: GRAVITONS AND VIRTUAL PARTICLES.
CAN ANYBODY EXPLAIN HOW GLUONS BIND QUARKS TOGETHER?

This tutorial aims to give a little background information about the particles and interactions which physicists consider to be fundamental.
Tutorial: Particles and Forces

What is a Higgs Boson?
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If massive objects (e.g the sun) attract things by emitting gravitons, and the sun is just a huge number of quarks, (and other itty bitty things), does each quark emit gravitons, and how frequently? Where does the energy come from for each quark to keep emitting gravitons? How long before a quark disappears due to graviton emission???? How does it happen?
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If a boson example is a laser light what is an example of a fermion?
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Exactly what does the word spin mean in quantum terms?
It is nothing like a ball spinning?

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Matter cannot be created or destroyed. So where were the atoms in our bodies before they were in our bodies.???
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QUANTUM MECHANICS



What is Quantum Mechanics?
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Terry Frankcombe Quantum Mechanics from a Chemist's Perspective
Terry Frankcombe Tutorial: Quantum Mechanics
Quantum Reality
Quantum reality,
Could someone please list some of the aspects of Quantum Theory which have been predicted and proven (in that order). Also, a comparable list of effects which have been observed then incorporated into the general framework of Quantum Mechanics. I am interested in determining whether QM is a statistical theory which makes valid predictions about the universe, or whether it is a theory into which observations about the universe have been 'fitted in to' very successfully.
What are some predictions of QM which have not yet been proven to exist? Which of these predictions could reasonably be expected to proven in the next few years?

Quantum Theory
Why can't we join Relativity and Quantum Theory?
Relativity and Quantum Theory
What are the applications of Quantum Mechanics?
Applications of quantum mechanics
Quantum mechanics in your sunglasses!
Polarised sunglasses
Polaroid sunglasses

QUANTUM PHYSICS



What is Quantum Physics?
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Quantum Physics What use is it in our daily lives?
Quantum physics applications

QUANTUM TUNNELING



What is Quantum Tunneling?
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QUANTUM COMPUTERS



Information on Quantum Computer development?
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What use would they be?
Quantum computers
Quantum computers 2
Is there a limit to how small?
Smaller electronics
Quantum computer.
Quantum computer
Brains quantum computer
Quantum computing
Liquid computer. Check out this new computer and it's the size of a postage stamp.
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QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT


A spinning coin model of quantum entanglement?
Model for quantum entanglement
Quantum Entanglement

ZERO POINT ENERGY



What is zero point energy?
Energy due to quantum fluctuations of the vacuum. Nobody knows if it can be harnessed yet.
Zero Point Energy,
Zero point energy,
Zero point energy,
Tutorial on Zero point energy.

SCHRODINGER'S CAT


The unfortunate story of a cat which is both alive and dead at the same time.
Schrodinger's Cat

HEISENBERG, THE DOUBLE SLIT EXPERIMENT AND QUANTUM WEIRDNESS



Heisenberg, the double slit experiment and quantum weirdness.
Quantum Mechanics

ZENO EFFECT



What is the Zeno Effect?
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My question is what could you apply the zeno effect to and then the anti zeno effect to to make an interesting thought experiment?
Is there any thing important about the zeno effect that applies to our everyday life?
Would it matter to the laws of physics if the effect did not exist?

Anti Zeno Effect
Do watched quantum pots boil faster?


ANTIMATTER



What is Antimatter?
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What happened to all the antimatter created in the big bang?
Why so much matter and so little antimatter?

MISCELLANEOUS



Just wanted to know if anything further has been developed in proving or disprove this quantum physics theory? i.e That electrons don't revolve around atoms as once thought but they in fact phase in and out of existence.
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OK, so electrons very rarely, if ever, slow in their orbits enough to allow absorption into the nucleus. Why do most atoms have them orbiting in the first place? The creation of an orbit needs ideal circumstances, I think. The simple fact that + attracts - would imply that we should have a whole lot more neutrons in our universe than charged particles, wouldn't it? I've never even heard mention of lone neutrons before, and yet they must be around.
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Do they orbit? Where does their energy come from?
Electrons around a nucleus

Implosion and explosion of a Bose-Einstein condensate "Bosenova"and zero point energy.
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What is the difference between Quantum Chromodynamics and Quantum Electrodynamics?
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Could we use Gravitons to create artificial gravity?
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I'd like to know what are Bose-Einstein condensates, and what is CP symmetry when it's at home?
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Why do so many things have spin? From sub-atomic particles to planets the solar system even galaxies have angular momentum, but where did it come from, and -more important -what causes the periodical wobbles in earth's orbit that is oft blamed for causing ice ages?
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I read that the repulsive force of like charge is explain in quantum field terms by the exchanging of photons between the two repulsive objects - for example two electrons. If that is correct - could we measure these photons somehow as we bring two material objects together? Why is there not a flash of EM radiation released when two objects are brought together?
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