Particles : Accelerators : Measuring really small things
The good news is that it’s not just light that has a dual particle-wave nature. All particles also have a wave behaviour! So while it’s true that there is no point in “hitting particles with photons”, or “throwing light” on small particles to observe them, you can hit them with tinier particles.
How do you do this? You take a tiny “probing” particle. Accelerate it to such levels that it has high frequency and a really short wavelength. Now hit the target particle with it. Now observe! (Reference)
A particle accelerator at home is your TV or Computer Monitor. (CRT not LCD).
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Introduction to Accelerators at CERN web-site.
“The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva, where it spans the border between Switzerland and France about 100 m underground. It is a particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles.
Two beams of subatomic particles called ‘hadrons’ – either protons or lead ions – will travel in opposite directions inside the circular accelerator, gaining energy with every lap. Physicists will use the LHC to recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang, by colliding the two beams head-on at very high energy. For decades, the Standard Model of particle physics has served physicists well as a means of understanding the fundamental laws of Nature, but it does not tell the whole story.” Source
CERN has used this LHC to measure the weight of anti-matter. Nose around the CER web-site and see if you find anything of interest to you.
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