Kaon by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
One strange quark bound with one up quark or a down quark. 6 combinations exist, 4 if we consider antiparticles the same as particles.
Made huge advances in radar.
Notably, Isidor Isaac Rabi was a leading figure there, and later he was head at the Columbia University laboratory that carried out the crucial Lamb-Retherford experiment and the anomalous magnetic dipole moment of the electron published at The Magnetic Moment of the Electron by Kusch and Foley (1948) using related techniques.
Wave-particle duality by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
The history of light if funny.
But then evidence of the diffraction of light start to become unbearably strong, culminating in the Arago spot.
And finally it was understood from Maxwell's equations that light is a form of electromagnetic radiation, as its speed was perfectly predicted by the theory.
But then evidence of particle nature started to surface once again with the photoelectric effect. Physicists must have been driven mad by all these changes.
Fresnel diffraction by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Near field approximation to Kirchhoff's diffraction formula, i.e. when the plane of observation is near the object diffracting.
Bridge amplification by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
This is one of the the key innovations of the Illumina (originally Solexa) sequencing.
This step is genius because sequencing is basically a signal-to-noise problem, as you are trying to observe individual tiny nucleotides mixed with billions of other tiny nucleotides.
With bridge amplification, we group some of the nucleotides together, and multiply the signal millions of times for that part of the DNA.
Kind of a synonym for hydrogen emission spectrum not very clear if fine structure is considered by this term or not.
Formula discovered in 1885, was it the first set to have an empirical formula?
Paralog by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
A gene that got duplicated withing the same species. The copies may diverge in function from the original.
Important example: hox genes.

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