Considering we named quarks for the noise ducks don't exactly make but maybe seagulls do and their binding particle for glue, then said they come in 'flavors' of 'Topness', Bottomness', etc and 'colors' I'm surprised we haven't just decided to start naming the damn things after breakfast cereals, now that we've exhausted just about every old alphabet, and still have J/? instead of picking one. It could be worse, geophysics has a term called 'giant radiating dyke swarms', all things considered it's probably better that editors, sci-fi writers, and mass media having been picking the names of a lot of this stuff.
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Chancellor of the Landsraad, Archduke of Is'Mod
US experiment hints at 'multiple God particles'
15/06/2010 04:04:14 AM
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I minored in modern physics, which means, I have enough knowledge to be.....
15/06/2010 04:45:35 AM
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this has always bothered me about particle physicists....
15/06/2010 05:32:26 AM
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Yeah, always been my problem, too.
15/06/2010 05:44:30 AM
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Lederman wanted to call it "the goddamn particle," but the publisher wouldn't let him.
15/06/2010 06:26:56 AM
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Well, we've been pretty bad at name stuff
15/06/2010 08:52:09 AM
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"Giant radiating dyke swarms"?!!!
15/06/2010 05:57:11 PM
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It's more than a few right answers.
15/06/2010 06:26:35 AM
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did you go to school in wisconsin? cause you sound just like that guy
15/06/2010 07:07:49 AM
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Yet, when determining the measure for what a planet is, Pluto vanished from the list!
15/06/2010 07:14:28 AM
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right, but it's still out there in the same orbit with the same momentum and positioning
15/06/2010 08:45:43 AM
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It had to lose its status or you'd have to memorize several more planets
15/06/2010 08:57:20 AM
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y'all are screwing up my "uncertainty principle" joke dammit!
*NM*
15/06/2010 09:19:11 AM
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I was disappointed they didn't make all the dwarf planets into planet planets.
16/06/2010 01:00:51 PM
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As a physicist, I find this quite interesting.
16/06/2010 09:08:15 PM
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Not quite.
16/06/2010 09:57:18 PM
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Re: Not quite.
16/06/2010 10:22:14 PM
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