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  • By recording which wires had pulses of electric current, one can see the particle's path; the direction of the curves shows how the particles are charged.

    Georges Charpak obituary Frank Close 2010

  • In high-energy particle physics experiments, it is also valuable to observe the particle's path.

    Georges Charpak obituary Frank Close 2010

  • The other experiment pegged the particle's mass at 115 to 127 GeV.

    Physicists Close In on a Universal Puzzle Gautam Naik 2011

  • On Tuesday, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, near Geneva, Switzerland, said that data from two independent experiments had narrowed the range of the would-be particle's likely mass.

    Physicists Close In on a Universal Puzzle Gautam Naik 2011

  • Thus, one might deem that a particle's mass and charge are intrinsic properties, whilst its velocity is an extrinsic property, depending as it does upon the reference frame chosen.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

  • The experiments have been performed so many times, with so many variations, it's conclusively proven that a particle's behavior depends upon the very act of observation.

    Why You Will Always Exist: Time Is 'On Demand' M.D. Robert Lanza 2011

  • My prediction and my money in various bets over the years is on the Tevatron excluding the particle's existence at its lowest permissible masses within the next six months and the LHC hammering the final nail in the coffin at higher masses, but I know many people are betting on it being discovered in the next year.

    Tevatron collider falls silent today after 26 years of smash hits 2011

  • By searching outside the protective shell of Earth's atmosphere they hope to find solid proof of the elusive particle's existence – or reasons for its absence.

    Anti-Universe Could Be Found By Giant Particle Detector Headed To Space 2010

  • How come there's a particle that gives all other particle's their mass?

    Deepak Chopra: Amir Aczel Interview by Deepak Chopra 2010

  • One of the Quantum truisms observed by Heisenberg and others is that both a particle's position and momentum can't be known at the same time.

    Dawkins and ID 2008

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