Natural Science Forum / Physics / Particle Physics / May 2004

This thread is very interesting and I just couldn't help throwing my 2 cents
in.  The fact that people question what is really behind the strong force is
also encouraging.
What I am about to say does not suggest that relativity or quantum theory

If two spin 1 photons are put together so that the tips of their
magnetic field vectors just touch one another ( the vector lines are
all in the same plane), a particle results which looks the same when
it is rotated through 180 degrees - a spin 2 particle.This is the spin

Is There a Force of Gravity?
    In undergraduate physics, the Newtonian concept of an attractive force
between masses that is proportional to the product of the masses divided by the
square of their separation is taught. When one advances to the more advanced

if supersymmetry is a feature of the world, and there are as many
superpartners of all known bosons and fermions, then would the
supersymmetric boson partner of known fermions be force carriers, i.e
new forces?

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Mach thought that the inertia of a local mass was caused by all the
other masses in the universe.If there are a finite number of Higgs
particles in the universe to cause mass, isn't this true? If I could
remove a galaxy from the universe then the higgs particles associated

i would like to show you a quote from feuerbacher
addressed to me :
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that is an excelent example  and prove of a behaviour

My question is straight forward: how many degrees of freedom exist for
subatomic particles?  I myself am inclined to say 3 spatial and 1
temporal degree, 3 color degrees for quarks; could electromagnetic
charge be another?  I've read places that a particle has four more

1. When an atom is ionised, does the electron radiate a photon because it
has been accelerated?
2. Is there evidence that only one photon is radiated by an electron when
it's atom is ionised?

Could gravity be a macroscopic effect of casimir effect on/between
short lived virtual particles?
VC