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Random Quantum and Particle Physics Trivia
Random Quantum and Particle Physics Trivia
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The top and bottom quarks are also known as:
time and breadth
tunnel and bridge
truth and beauty
theory and belief
2
According to Heisenberg, if you know the position of an object more precisely, you know the ______ less precisely.
energy
charge
mass
momentum
3
Who first postulated that particles are waves?
Planck
Dirac
de Broglie
Pauli
4
Virtual photons, gluons, and the hypothetical gravitons of quantum gravity are all examples of what type of particle?
bosons
hadrons
fermions
leptons
5
What is the SI unit for radioactivity, named for the physicist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize with the Curies?
Sievert
Gray
Becquerel
Rontgen
6
Whose "cat" thought experiment illustrated the disconnect between the quantum world and everyday objects?
Einstein
Fermi
Heisenberg
Schrodinger
7
SNOLAB, the underground physics laboratory in Sudbury, had its beginnings in the SNO experiments designed to detect:
neutrinos
antimatter
bosons
quarks
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The dense and positively charged nucleus was discovered by measuring how alpha particles were scattered by a foil of:
chromium
gold
uranium
aluminum
9
Approximately 15% of the Universe's total mass is believed to be baryonic. What term is used to describe the rest?
fermionic
quark
plasmic
dark
10
A muon is an elementary particle similar to which lighter, more stable, and much more familiar particle?
proton
neutron
photon
electron