the schoolboy in is amused (again)

[adelaidesean]

I can't believe I've never heard of this before. It's not April 1st, is it?

"Physicists Discover New Particle: the Bottom-most 'Bottomonium'"

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Listening to: Harold Budd & Robin Guthrie - Childhood Lost

Comments

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

You're the third writer I know who listens to a lot of Harold Budd. It's enough to make me buy an album.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Definitely worth a listen, but I DLed these albums from eMusic mainly because of Robin Guthrie. I've become something of a fan in recent months. His solo work, outside the Cocteau Twins, is quite magical.

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

When it comes to Quarks and related elementary particle stuff, there seems to be some sort of a competition amongst Physicist as to who can come up with the best name - something whimsical but not so silly as to be rejected.

There are six different types of quark, (a.k.a. flavors of quarks) - up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom. Each has an anti particle - anti-up, anti-down etc.

So if you combine a bottom quark and an anti-bottom quark you get bottomonium. Seems quite reasonable to me.

[gloripebbles.livejournal.com]

See this is what comes of allowing physicists naming their own things.... (as the mother of a possible physicist to be I can see it happening alread - think I'll go hide now).

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Heaven help us if they ever start naming their kids!

[gloripebbles.livejournal.com]

Oh dear lord - see, now you've gone & put REALLY scary thoughts out there :o *goes & hides in the corner*