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To get a closer look, he placed it in a dark box and found that the spark length was reduced. When he used a glass box, the spark length increased and when he replaced it with a quartz box, the spark length increased further. This was the first observation of the photoelectric effect.
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- Mahesh Shenoy
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In 2002, he published his results in a weighty tome called A New Kind of Science, which garnered mixed reviews and generally failed to make the impact Wolfram seemingly hoped for. Now he’s back with another, similar idea and an even more ambitious claim. Once again, Wolfram has studied the properties of simple algorithms; this time ones that are a ...
His theory also predicts that mass is quantized into units about 10^36 times smaller than the mass of an electron. Another prediction is that particles like electrons are not elementary at all, but conglomerations of much simpler elements. By his calculations, an electron should be composed of about 10^35 of these elements. But much simpler particl...
One final point worth noting is Wolfram’s place in the physics community. He is an outsider. That shouldn’t matter, but it does. A persistent criticism of A New Kind of Sciencewas that it failed to adequately acknowledge the contributions of others working in the same field. This impression undoubtedly had a detrimental effect on the way Wolfram’s ...
Modern physics is an effort to understand the underlying processes of the interactions of matter using the tools of science & engineering. In a literal sense, the term modern physics means up-to-date physics. In this sense, a significant portion of so-called classical physics is modern.
Welcome to modern physics essentials (Course intro) Google Classroom. About. Electrons, protons, neutrons, photons - these are the fundamental building blocks of everything you see around us. From the tiniest grains of sand to the biggest stars in our cosmos. But, they defy Newton's laws.
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- Mahesh Shenoy
Section Key Terms. Understanding the Grand Unified Theory. Present quests to show that the four basic forces are different manifestations of a single unified force that follow a long tradition.