Particle Physics in 60 seconds

i-d3be5e0987e3ddc0ed3cba2abbfbcdba-ep.jpgParticle physics explained in 60 second bursts of words at Symmetry Magazine published by Fermi Lab and SLAC.

I find this picture simple and utterly fascinating. It's an artistic rendering of the tracks of an electron and it's anti-particle as they dance in an electromagnetic field. Positron, electron's anti-particle, came out of Dirac's beautiful equation before it was found in a particle accelerator.

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