F26-1005A, In Search of the Smallest Thing

In the final section of “The Search for the Smallest Thing”, we’ll get heavily into subatomic particles. It turns out there are a lot of them, and a lot of them are made of even smaller particles like “quarks”. We’ll talk about particle accelerators and how they contribute to new discoveries. We’ll talk about the Four Fundamental forces that are the foundation of Physics. We’ll talk about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and how it complicates things. And finally we’ll talk about the Higgs Boson, which is responsible for all the mass in the Universe.

Presenter: Mark Dodge
Mark Dodge received his bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of California Berkeley and earned his master’s degree in engineering physics from the University of Virginia. He worked as an engineering scientist at IBM and then became a high school physics teacher, teaching for 24 years. He has been educating LLI members on various scientific subjects for the past six years.

LLI Coordinator: Jo Anne Renton