https://gezhuang0717.github.io/posts/Recent content in Blog on Zhuang GeHugoen-USThu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0300https://gezhuang0717.github.io/posts/mass-light/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0300https://gezhuang0717.github.io/posts/mass-light/<p>Explore how atoms, quantum fields and spacetime explain matter, mass and light. Follow the physics from the Higgs field and QCD to photons, neutrinos, superconductivity and the expanding universe.</p> <nav class="zg-reader-contents" aria-label="Chapters"> <h2>Chapters</h2> <ol><li><a href="https://gezhuang0717.github.io/books/mass-light/matter/">The hierarchy of matter: atom, nucleus, nucleon, field</a></li><li><a href="https://gezhuang0717.github.io/books/mass-light/standard-model/">The Standard Model map</a></li><li><a href="https://gezhuang0717.github.io/books/mass-light/mass/">Mass and energy in relativity</a></li><li><a href="https://gezhuang0717.github.io/books/mass-light/higgs/">The Higgs field: what it does and what it does not do</a></li><li><a href="https://gezhuang0717.github.io/books/mass-light/qcd/">Why most ordinary mass is QCD mass</a></li><li><a href="https://gezhuang0717.github.io/books/mass-light/interactions/">Gauge symmetry and the four fundamental interactions</a></li><li><a href="https://gezhuang0717.github.io/books/mass-light/early-universe/">Electroweak restoration, QCD plasma, and grand unification</a></li><li><a href="https://gezhuang0717.github.io/books/mass-light/light/">What is light? From rays to Maxwell</a></li><li><a href="https://gezhuang0717.github.io/books/mass-light/photons/">Photons, quantum electrodynamics, and wave-particle language</a></li><li><a href="https://gezhuang0717.github.io/books/mass-light/spacetime/">Light and spacetime</a></li><li><a href="https://gezhuang0717.github.io/books/mass-light/superconductivity/">Superconductivity and the Anderson-Higgs connection</a></li><li><a href="https://gezhuang0717.github.io/books/mass-light/frontiers/">What the Standard Model does not explain</a></li><li><a href="https://gezhuang0717.github.io/books/mass-light/cosmology/">Cosmology: what is established, what is extrapolated, what is speculative</a></li><li><a href="https://gezhuang0717.github.io/books/mass-light/light-levels/">A modern eleven-level answer to “What is light?”</a></li></ol><h2>Further study and reference</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://gezhuang0717.github.io/books/mass-light/neutrinos/">Neutrinos and what oscillations measure</a></li><li><a href="https://gezhuang0717.github.io/books/mass-light/constants/">Appendix A. Constants and scales quick reference</a></li><li><a href="https://gezhuang0717.github.io/books/mass-light/equations/">Appendix B. Equation map</a></li><li><a href="https://gezhuang0717.github.io/books/mass-light/misconceptions/">Appendix C. Common misconceptions corrected</a></li><li><a href="https://gezhuang0717.github.io/books/mass-light/exercises/">Appendix D. Problems and selected solutions</a></li></ul></nav>https://gezhuang0717.github.io/posts/welcome/Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://gezhuang0717.github.io/posts/welcome/<p>This site collects my research on Penning-trap and MR-TOF mass spectrometry of exotic nuclei. The <a href="https://gezhuang0717.github.io/daily/">Daily</a> page keeps a calendar of my science log together with new papers, news and jobs in nuclear physics and ion-trap techniques.</p>