Frequently Asked Questions
The following are questions submitted to us. Helen Quinn, content provider for this web site, offers answers to the questions.
- Why is so much energy produced when an atom is split or fused?
- More about time dilation
- How does a cyclotron work?
- Have quarks been observed and isolated in the laboratory?
- Is mass always conserved?
- How can the exchange of a photon attract a proton and an electron, yet repel two electrons?
- More about the speed of light.
- I was looking for a SU3 chart of the quark model.
- Why is the visual spectrum continuous if it is produced by electrons going from one quantum state to another within the atom?
- Time, microphysical processes, and probability.
