Dark Side of the Horse by Samson for April 22, 2022

Is Horace off to see his quantum mechanic?

But does the particle have mass?

Wavicle.

It’ll all come down to a photon finish.

This discussion raises a whole spectrum of questions

A particle — except when it’s a wave. Or a wave and a particle.

Let’s meet one of those particles. Hello, Mr. Photon. Give us a wave.

Cartoon physics taken to a new level.

Of course Sine is on the same wavelength. His sister Cosine, on the other hand…

Never actually a particle. Just a fixed quanta.

waves

Well truth sometimes hurts, Horace!

I heard it on the Tweet-er feed……

Ouch

Light’s number-two state is as a wave but it is Avis to admit it.

Just about the time we thought we had matter figured out with protons, neutrons and electrons, that pesky quantum physics came along and showed us we really have no idea what ANYTHING really is. Can you say Higgs-Boson particle????

Don’t wave it off.

Heavy subject for a light discussion

Quarks are the first building blocks not atoms.

In physics, a state of matter is one of the distinct forms in which matter can exist. Four states of matter are observable in everyday life: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Many intermediate states are known to exist, such as liquid crystal, and some states only exist under extreme conditions, such as Bose–Einstein condensates, neutron-degenerate matter, and quark–gluon plasma, which only occur, respectively, in situations of extreme cold, extreme density, and extremely high energy. For a complete list of all exotic states of matter, see the list of states-of-matter.

Pretty high frequency of puns today.

No matter.

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