Light is beautiful. It can probe matter in a multitude of ways, but there are limitations when we try to use it to investigate the revolution in nanotechnology that is currently taking place. The firs...
Protons and neutrons are composite objects that consist of quarks bound by the strong force. Free quarks, and the gluons that hold them together, are not observed in nature because the coupling streng...
For many years atomic-collision experiments basically involved measuring the deflection of fast projectiles that had passed through gaseous targets, or measuring the amount of light given off by atoms...