Tag: Advent 2012
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Revealing the Smallest Particles (Science Advent 5)
(Every day until Christmas, I’ll be posting a science-related image.) Day 5 We can’t see subatomic particles directly. Visible light has wavelengths far too large; gamma-ray light is small enough, but carries sufficient energy to strongly affect the particles we’re trying to study. One way to see particles indirectly is a bubble chamber, a device…
Galileo's Pendulum 