In theoretical physics, a bare particle is an excitation of an elementary quantum field. Such a particle is not identical to the particles observed in the experiments: the real particles are dressed particles that also include additional particles surrounding the bare one.
Famous quotes containing the words bare and/or particle:
“Summoning a child’s voice from a webfoot stone,
Never never oh never to regret the bugle I wore
On my cleaving arm as I blasted in a wave.
Now shown and mostly bare I would lie down,
Lie down, like down and live
As quiet as a bone.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)