QUARKS TO QUASARS

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WHAT ARE THE BASIC FORCES BETWEEN PARTICLES?


     This exhibit, one of two about the Standard Model, has two activities that introduce the role of forces in producing the structure of matter. A computer game, the Four Forces, allows students to learn about each of the four forces by dragging new slabs onto the face of Fermilab's Wilson Hall. During the activity, a Force Fiend randomly enters and takes away one of the four forces. Seeing the consequences of the loss of each force provides a graphic idea of the relative importance of each of the four forces to hold our world together.