This is Spinal Tap!
+Atoms!
Big Bottom
- The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin - That's what I said. - The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand - Or so I have read. - My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo. - I love to sink her with my pink torpedo. - Big bottom - Big bottom - Talk about bum cakes, - My gal's got 'em. - Big bottom, - Drive me out of my mind. - How can I leave this behind? - I saw her on monday, twas my lucky bun day - You know what I mean. - I love her each weekday, each velvety cheekday - You know what I mean. - My love gun's loaded and she's in my sights - Big game's waiting there inside her tights - Big bottom - Big bottom - Talk about mud flaps - My gal's got 'em. - Big bottom - Drive me out of my mind. - How can I leave this behind? -Stonehenge
- In ancient times hundreds of years before the dawn of history - Lived this strange rights of pain the [Incomprehensible] - No one knows who they were what they were doing - But the legacy remains here into the living rock of Stonehenge +Atoms actually consist of protons, neutrons and electrons, and can +be torn apart by raising the temperature of the atom so high that the +forces are not strong enough to hold them together. Once we break +apart the atom, what happens? How do these smaller particles +interact? We can understand the atom at follows:
- Stonehenge, where the demons dwell - Where the banshees live and they do live well - Stonehenge where a man is a man - And the children dance to the pipes of pan - Stonehenge, 'tis a magic place - Where the moon doth rise with a dragon's face - Stonehenge where the virgins lie - And the prayer of devils fill the midnight sky +
- And you my love, won't you take my hand?
- We'll go back in time to that mystic land
- Where the dew drops cry and the cats meow
- I will take you there, I will show you how
- And oh, how they danced
- The little children of Stonehenge
- Beneath the haunted moon for fear
- That day break might come too soon
+A Hydrogen Atom, the simplest possible atom, is made of one proton +and one electron. The proton, which is much heavier than the electron +(in fact about 2000 times heavier) sits in the center, with the +electron orbiting around the proton. The electron is negatively +charged[ref], while the proton is positively charged[ref], so they are +attracted to each other. The electron stays in orbit around the +proton, just like the Earth stays in orbit around the Sun.
- And where were they now - The little people of Stonehenge - And what would they say to us - If we were here tonight -Tonight I'm gonna rock you
- Little girl, it's a great big world but there's - only on of me - You can't touch 'cause I cost too much but - Tonight I'm gonna rock you - Tonight I'm gonna rock you - Tonight! - You're sweet but you're just four feet - And you still got your baby teeth - You're too young and I'm too well hung - Tonight I'm gonna rock you - Tonight I'm gonna rock you - Tonight! - You're hot, you take all we got, not a dry - seat in the house - Next day, we'll be on our way - Tonight I'm gonna rock you - Tonight! - Chorus: - Little girl, it's a great big world, but there's - only one of me- + +Is this as small as it gets?
+ + +Are these particles the smallest particles, or can we split them, +just like we split the atom?
+ + +We believe the electron is indeed fundamental. After trying to +split it apart in many different ways, physicists have concluded that +it is probably not possible, meaning that electrons are not made of +anything smaller.
+ + +However, we know that the proton is made up of other smaller +particles, which we call quarks. The proton is made up of two kinds of +quarks, called "up" and "down". [We can imagine]?? the proton is made +up of three quarks: two up quarks and one down quark.
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+What about other atoms?
+ + +This simple model can be expanded to describe more complicated +atoms. For example, the Helium atom consists of two protons and two +neutrons in the center, forming the nucleus [ref], with two electrons +orbiting them. The proton, made of quarks is very similar to the +neutron, while the electron is indivisible. With a similar mass[ref], +they have very similar properties[ref], apart from their different +electric charge [ref] (the proton is positively charged[ref], the +neutron is neutral and has no electric charge[ref]). This is because +they are also made up of quarks, just in a different +combination. While the proton has two up quarks and one down quark, +the neutron consists of one up quark and two down quarks.
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+What about their charges?
+ + +How can it be that the proton and neutron have a different charge, +if they are made of the same building blocks?
+ + +We know that the proton is up, up, down and charged +1 and the +neutron is up, down, down and charged 0. The only possible way of +resolving this is that the up quark is charged +2/3 and the down quark +is charged -1/3. The fractions only appear here because we discovered +the electron before we discovered the quarks, and called the electron +charge "-1". If we had called the charge of the electron "-3", the +quark charges would be whole numbers.
+ + +Questions we still need to answer
+ + +What are charges? Why do we call them "+" and "-"? What holds +together the Hydrogen atom? And what holds together the nucleus? What +about radioactivity? Why do physicists always draw funny graphs when +explaining this? And finally, what is this "Higgs boson" everyone is +talking about? Continue to answer these questions.