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Drugs are bad, mmmkay (Taken with instagram)
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(Reblogged from iwanpranoto)
I don’t see that it makes any point that someone in the Swedish Academy decides that this work is noble enough to receive a prize—I’ve already got the prize. The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery.
Richard Feynman (1999)
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Feynman Diagrams
The interactions of subatomic particles can be challenging to understand - and even more-so to express mathematically. Although the mathematics that these diagrams represent is highly complex - the events are usually fairly simple. Typically, these diagrams are most useful in QED (Quantum Electrodynamics) and QCD (Quantum Chromodynamics.)
For example, in this diagram - an electron, shown as e-, and a positron, shown as e+, collide. Since a positron is the antimatter equivalent of an electron, upon collision the two particles annihilate one another - creating a photon, described by the blue wiggly line. The photon eventually produces a quark, anti-quark pair - one of which releases a gluon (shown by the green line.)
Feynman diagrams are remarkable for their way of bringing these complex equations down to an easily comprehendible level - they allow physicists to take a step away from the pages of equations to take a look at what is really happening.
The position and representation of the axes are up to personal preference, the two dimensions of time and space can be on either the x or y-axis - whichever is more easily comprehendible by the particular scientist.
Plus, drawing a few of these little buggers on random papers makes you look super-smart.
Think I might get this inked.
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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
- Aldous Huxley
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