ch4 new particles ws
In class, we watched these you tube videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMgi2j9Ks9k (quarks)
we also watched large hadron rap
and fermilab - the higgs boson
and stephen hawking, the higgs boson found
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR2OLjAr1Fc&feature=related (large hadrdon collider)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT-Iu8a_CtM&feature=related (big bang and large hadron collider)
Questions -
1. What simple statement was proven false? How?
2. Do these new particles exist in ordinary matter? How are they obtained?
3. Name the 2 ‘families’ of subatomic particles, and classify the 3 we learned.
4. What happens when a particle and an antiparticle collide? Give an example of a particle and its antiparticle.
5. According to this article, how many elementary particles are there?
6. What are scientists hoping to find?