Menu
Home Explore People Places Arts History Plants & Animals Science Life & Culture Technology

General

Annihilation
Process that occurs when a subatomic particle collides with its respective antiparticle to produce other particles
Baryon asymmetry
Abundance of matter (baryons) and lack of antimatter (antibaryons) in our Observable Universe
BRANE
Airborne computer built by IBM in the 1950s for the B-52 strategic bomber
Charge conservation
Fundamental physical law – electric charge is continuously conserved in space and time
CP violation
Violation of charge-parity symmetry in particle physics and cosmology
CPT symmetry
Invariance under simultaneous charge conjugation, parity transformation and time reversal
Discovery of the neutron
Scientific background leading to the discovery of subatomic particles
Elastic scattering
Type of particle scattering in which kinetic energy is conserved but direction is modified
Electroweak interaction
Unified description of electromagnetism and the weak interaction
Feynman diagram
Pictorial representation of the behavior of subatomic particles
Free neutron decay
Decay of a neutron when outside a nucleus
Generation (particle physics)
Division of elementary particles
Grand Unified Theory
Particle physics model
Hierarchy problem
Why is gravity weaker, compared to other fundamental forces
Higgs mechanism
Mechanism that explains the generation of mass for gauge bosons
Inelastic scattering
Particle scattering in which kinetic energy is not conserved
Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
Supersymmetric extension to the Standard Model
M-theory
Framework of superstring theory
Neutrino oscillation
Phenomenon in which a neutrino changes lepton flavor as it travels
Noether's theorem
Statement relating differentiable symmetries to conserved quantities
Pair production
Interaction of photon with matter resulting into ejection of electron-positron pair
Particle
Small localized object considered in physical sciences
Particle decay
Spontaneous process of one unstable subatomic particle transforming into multiple other particles
Particle physics
Branch of physics
Physics beyond the Standard Model
Theories trying to extend known physics
Proton decay
Hypothetical particle decay process of a proton
QCD matter
Theorized phases of matter whose degrees of freedom include quarks and gluons
Quark model
Classification scheme of hadrons
Scalar field theory
Field theory of scalar fields
Scattering
General physical process where waves are forced to deviate from a straight trajectory due to localized non-uniformities in the medium through which they pass
Spontaneous symmetry breaking
Physical process
Standard Model
Theory of forces and subatomic particles
String (physics)
Hypothetical physical entity in string theory
String theory
Theoretical framework in physics
Supergravity
Combination of the principles of supersymmetry and general relativity
Superstring theory
Theory of strings with supersymmetry
Supersymmetry
Symmetry between bosons and fermions
Symmetry breaking
Physical process transitioning a system from a symmetric state to a more ordered state
Theory of everything
Hypothetical single, all-encompassing, coherent theoretical framework of physics
Thomson scattering
Scattering of electromagnetic radiation by a free charged particle
Unified field theory
Type of physical field theory unifying fundamental forces
Vacuum energy
Background energy existing in space
Yang–Mills theory
Physical theory unifying the electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions