The First Ideas About Matter
An interesting article I found in a book about the discovery of matter. Enjoy.
An interesting article I found in a book about the discovery of matter. Enjoy.
A theory of the structure of the physical world that was put forth by Aristotle and was once widely believed and accepted. Although we now know this to be false, it is still intriguing to explore some of the tenets and concepts behind this once much-vaunted theory.
There has been a media scare flocking the experimentation being conducted by CERN, near Geneva. Here is the simplest possible explanation of what these scientists are trying to achieve.
With an endeavour to recreate the very moment that exploded everything into existence, Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider fired a beam of protons on Wednesday, 10th September within a six meter circumference circle tunnel of 17miles or 27kilometers 100 meters below the French-Swiss border, on the outskirts of Geneva.
All matter in this Universe is made up of different kinds of elements. There are about 100 types of elements. Elements are in turn made of atoms. These atoms are so tiny that they cannot be seen with the naked eye. Only a powerful microscope will reveal these atoms. In fact a pinhead contains about 10,000 atoms.