A standout amongst the most engaging names that I've gone over in the material science segment is the "Goodness My God Particle." Scientists additionally allude to this molecule as the "ermahgerd molecule" (joking, joking. It's not by any means called that, however it is known as the "Gracious My God Particle"). Presently, the main thing that may fly into a portion of your brains is the Higgs Boson, which was found in 2012.
This isn't excessively astonishing as the media circumvented calling it the "God Particle." However, these two particles are altogether different. So what is the Oh My God Particle? Well it is a basic, modest proton. So why the name?
This proton had the successful mass-vitality of a baseball going at 90 km/h (56 mph)! This sort of molecule is known as an inestimable beam, they're for the most part just protons yet can now and again be a Helium iota or even an electron. Makes them so fascinating that they're voyaging extremely close to the speed of light, and the Oh My God Particle is the quickest at any point found.
Found in 1991 in Utah, this high vitality molecule is probably going to have started from around the Supermassive Black Hole in the universe Centaurus A preceding it made its trip to the Earth. Presently we specified that it was going close to the speed of light…
Well how close? Well this proton had a vitality level of around 50 joules of vitality, which is sufficient to quickly illuminate a 50 Watt light. This may not appear like much vitality, but rather since a solitary proton weighs 1.67e-27 kg (or 0.167 with 26 zeroes preceding it), it more likely than not had a mind boggling speed.
Furthermore, that speed has been figured to being around 99.9999999999999999999995% of the speed of light! That implies that, per a moment, it was voyaging just 1.5 quadrillionths of a meter slower than the speed of light. Not to stress however, despite the fact that this molecule had the mass-vitality of a baseball, if you somehow happened to be hit by one of these in the head while strolling down the road, you wouldn't be thumped oblivious.
I trust now you can acknowledge why it is known as the Oh My God Particle… the researchers that recognized this molecule most likely hollered that out when they worked out how quick that solitary proton was voyaging.