nuclear particles

Yang and Lee's hypothesis, though, suggested that the behavior of nuclear particles in beta decay might not look the same if you flipped the events in an imaginary mirror.

Radioactive dust is a term for nuclear particles that are left on the ground or floating in the air in the aftermath of a nuclear event like Chernobyl.

The main source of concern here is radioactive dust, or the nuclear particles that are created by an event such as the Chernobyl accident.

What this meant, among other things, was devising mathematical methods that made fully possible and practical the unification of quantum theory with two of the four forces of the universe: electromagnetism and the “weak force” that acts between nuclear particles.

Researchers soon found that some of the supercharged nuclear particles would glom on to the atoms in the targets and create bigger, heavier elements.