• Question: Do you believe that we are not entirely on earth and some of our particles are in sub space?

    Asked by miss chanandler bong to Anne, Florence, Mark, Neil, Sinead on 16 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Sinead Balgobin

      Sinead Balgobin answered on 16 Nov 2015:


      Miss Chanandler Bong, you have a superb username.

      Also woah, woah, woah. This just got too philosophical and physicsy! I have got to say, this is beyond my scope of knowledge and I have no idea. But if some of our particles are in sub space, wouldn’t some of earth’s particles also be in sub space? So we’re not entirely on earth, but we’re also not not entirely on earth? Or something. Too many negatives.

      I confused myself.

      But until we prove or disprove theoretical physics theories, I’m inclined to keep an open mind about the nature of matter (or antimatter) and our universe(s)…

    • Photo: Mark Collins

      Mark Collins answered on 16 Nov 2015:


      Hi Chandler, This may be possible as we continue to find more and more particles. when I was at school the electron was the smallest known particle and now we have neutrinos (People thought these existed but there was a hunt for neutrinos and they were discovered in a lab built over 2km below the ground in order to isolate these particles away from any cosmic activity! Isn’t it really exciting? I bet you never thought you would have a lab deep down in the ground looking at our particles! So there may be, there are also plans to be build another Large Hadron Collidor, called the very large hadron collider although we are still looking at the huge amounts of data already gathered so new discoveries may already have been made and waiting in the data to be discovered. It is an exciting time to be a scientist.

    • Photo: Florence McCarthy

      Florence McCarthy answered on 17 Nov 2015:


      If you mean our molecules then yes, there are molecules in the layers of the earths atmosphere just below space. An example would be ozone but there are many others. If you mean as humans are some of our particles in space I don’t think so.

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