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:
“On the bare upland pasture there had spread
O’ernight ‘twixt mullein stalks a wheel of thread
And straining cables wet with silver dew.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“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)