Light and Matter (Origins)

by David Turell , Monday, June 23, 2014, 18:50 (3804 days ago) @ David Turell
edited by unknown, Monday, June 23, 2014, 19:31


> > GK: "photon" I don't think "are in there". they are produced when state changes.-The Strassler article does not identify photons as matter. This confused me and the relationship to the article about creating photons as matter.:-> http://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-physics-basics/the-known-appar... this discussion about the Higgs and how it relates to fermions and bosons:-http://blogs.nature.com/news/2014/06/higgs-particle-linked-to-matter-not-just-force-particles.html-"Physicists working at CERN, the European particle accelerator near Geneva, have snared a new first for the Higgs boson. They have watched it decay directly to the particles that make up matter (called fermions) rather than just the particles that convey force (bosons), as they had before."-Original discussion is the first entry looking at a Guardian article, I believe 5/19-http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/may/18/matter-light-photons-electrons-positrons