Light is made up of... «Seven Brief Lessons on Physics»
nika_84 декабря 2024Light is made up of photons, the particles of light intuited by Einstein. The things we see are made of atoms. Every atom consists of a nucleus surrounded by electrons. Every nucleus consists of tightly packed protons and neutrons. Both protons and neutrons are made up of even smaller particles which the American physicist Murray Gell-Mann named ‘quarks’, inspired by a seemingly nonsensical word in a nonsensical phrase in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake: ‘Three quarks for Muster Mark!’ Everything we touch is therefore made of electrons, and of these quarks.'
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