Ok, why can light travel through glass and not wood. They are both solid. I understand that light is both a wave as well as a particle(weird). I do AS physics(UK). is it the frequency, is it the energy. Can E=hf help you with the answer? Oh and bonus for anyone who can tell something of the Higgs boson. Physic is so interesting I wish I knew it all, who agrees.
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If you have done energy levels then you should understand this. When the light passes through the glass the energy levels of the atoms do not correspond to the energy of light photons and so they are not absorbed, however wood does have energy level differences that allow for photons to be absorbed.
As for the Higgs boson, you should know that bosons are the exchange particles, photons for electromagnetism, gluons for the strong force, W and Z for the weak and the hypothetical graviton for gravity. The Higgs boson is the exchange particle for mass, and is predicted by the Standard Model. It involves some pretty high level maths and physics to explain it fully, so I recommend if you are interested to read physics books and just skim over the Wikipedia articles that interest you.
And yep, physics is brilliant :)
As for the Higgs boson, you should know that bosons are the exchange particles, photons for electromagnetism, gluons for the strong force, W and Z for the weak and the hypothetical graviton for gravity. The Higgs boson is the exchange particle for mass, and is predicted by the Standard Model. It involves some pretty high level maths and physics to explain it fully, so I recommend if you are interested to read physics books and just skim over the Wikipedia articles that interest you.
And yep, physics is brilliant :)