Further correction: Mercury as seen by the MESSENGER spacecraft. (Courtesy: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington) A minuscule correction to the ...
It is always cool to repeat classic experiments. How many of us know the radius of the Earth because we determined it on our own? I haven't done this, at least not yet. For all my life I have just ...
Although tiny, a proton takes up a finite amount of space, enough to fit three quarks, a host of virtual particles, and their associated gluons. The size of a proton’s radius is determined by these ...