Latest Results from CERN

[Gord_in_Toronto]

I see that there has not been a thread abut CERN for some time.

Is it "Turtles All the Way Down"?

LHCb discovers three new exotic particles

Once upon a time there were three elementary particles and it all made sense.

Now:

Quarks are elementary particles and come in six flavours: up, down, charm, strange, top and bottom. They usually combine together in groups of twos and threes to form hadrons such as the protons and neutrons that make up atomic nuclei. More rarely, however, they can also combine into four-quark and five-quark particles, or “tetraquarks” and “pentaquarks”. These exotic hadrons were predicted by theorists at the same time as conventional hadrons, about six decades ago, but only relatively recently, in the past 20 years, have they been observed by LHCb and other experiments.

I wonder if the actual number of particles in this universe has a fixed limit?

 

[shemp]

There are limits in Florida and Texas, and they're working on a bill to ban particles altogether. Especially the top and bottom quarks and any combination of more than two.

 

[catsmate]

There are limits in Florida and Texas, and they're working on a bill to ban particles altogether. Especially the top and bottom quarks and any combination of more than two.

Bring back Truth and Beauty!

 

[Puppycow]

There are limits in Florida and Texas, and they're working on a bill to ban particles altogether. Especially the top and bottom quarks and any combination of more than two.

Thank goodness too!! Liberul teachers are teaching our children about these strange quarks!! CHILDREN!!!!

Someone had to put a stop to it.

 

[W.D.Clinger]

Thank goodness too!! Liberul teachers are teaching our children about these strange quarks!! CHILDREN!!!!

Someone had to put a stop to it.

Leptons, Gluons, Bosons, Top Quarks + more...

...someone ought to invent a catchy abbreviation for these alleged things.

 

[Thermal]

Can't even check into SMM&T without getting sexually indoctrinated.

 

[W.D.Clinger]

Can't even check into SMM&T without getting sexually indoctrinated.

You object to the Standard Model?

 

[Thermal]

You object to the Standard Model?

Well, I can change my spin with the right entanglement.

 

[CORed]

There are limits in Florida and Texas, and they're working on a bill to ban particles altogether. Especially the top and bottom quarks and any combination of more than two.

Well, since protons and neutrons are combinations of three quarks, it looks like Florida and Texas will make all ordinary matter illegal, which is pretty much normal level stupidity for those two states.

 

[GlennB]

Well, since protons and neutrons are combinations of three quarks, it looks like Florida and Texas will make all ordinary matter illegal, which is pretty much normal level stupidity for those two states.

Indiana once took up a bill to define pi as 3.2. It almost passed.

 

[jrhowell]

Indiana once took up a bill to define pi as 3.2. It almost passed.

Odd. 3.1 would be closer. Perhaps they like to round up.

 

[Apathia]

You object to the Standard Model?

I object to anorexic, rail thin, runway models.

 

[Darat]

Odd. 3.1 would be closer. Perhaps they like to round up.

It's America, everything is always bigger!

 

[Wudang]

Ask any American if they want a small pi or a big pi and you know what the answer will be.