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Keeping Track of Your Subatomic Particles
Mike Siekkinen writes "For those that have ever wondered how many different subatomic particles are currently classified, here is your answer. It provides a well organized Flash chart of fundamental particles and interactions, as well as printable JPEGs and PDFs. Now you can keep your fermions and your bosons straight. The site also has another chart depicting the history of the universe, highlighting the evolution of the subatomic world."
CmdrTaco's brain.
before printing the images on an inkjet or color laser printer with gimp or Photoshop. You can also experiment with the Hue value to tune the colors to your liking.
If you intend to have this rendered on photo paper using an on-line printing service the black background makes for a nice poster though.
Flourescent (adj): smelling like ground wheat.
From The Jargon File:
bogon /boh'gon/ n.
[very common; by analogy with proton/electron/neutron, but doubtless reinforced after 1980 by the similarity to Douglas Adams's `Vogons'; see the Bibliography in Appendix C and note that Arthur Dent actually mispronounces `Vogons' as `Bogons' at one point] 1. The elementary particle of bogosity (see quantum bogodynamics ). For instance, "the Ethernet is emitting bogons again" means that it is broken or acting in an erratic or bogus fashion. 2. A query packet sent from a TCP/IP domain resolver to a root server, having the reply bit set instead of the query bit. 3. Any bogus or incorrectly formed packet sent on a network. 4. By synecdoche, used to refer to any bogus thing, as in "I'd like to go to lunch with you but I've got to go to the weekly staff bogon". 5. A person who is bogus or who says bogus things. This was historically the original usage, but has been overtaken by its derivative senses 1-4. See also bogosity , bogus ; compare psyton , fat electrons , magic smoke .
The bogon has become the type case for a whole bestiary of nonce particle names, including the `clutron' or `cluon' (indivisible particle of cluefulness, obviously the antiparticle of the bogon) and the futon (elementary particle of randomness , or sometimes of lameness). These are not so much live usages in themselves as examples of a live meta-usage: that is, it has become a standard joke or linguistic maneuver to "explain" otherwise mysterious circumstances by inventing nonce particle names. And these imply nonce particle theories, with all their dignity or lack thereof (we might note parenthetically that this is a generalization from "(bogus particle) theories" to "bogus (particle theories)"!). Perhaps such particles are the modern-day equivalents of trolls and wood-nymphs as standard starting-points around which to construct explanatory myths. Of course, playing on an existing word (as in the `futon') yields additional flavor. Compare magic smoke .
Note: This is a static quote from The Jargon File version 4.3.3, which is lovingly maintained by our own Eric S. Raymond. If you are reading this post long after its freshness date, please refer to the original entry.
Good posting - very informative
According to the table, the pion and rho mesons both seem to be built out of an up and an anti-down. Both have a charge of +1, but the masses and spins are different.
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To answer my own question, a quick google shows:
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbas
The quick answer - The rho meson is an excited pion.
After a quick look, the hyperphysics web site looks quite interesting. This is the starter link:
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hphys
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
the high-res versions that are offered here are great. i have access to a huge hp designjet, and plan on printing these out for office wall art. does anyone know of other sites that offer similarly good, free, printer-quality sciency images?
- Modon - elementary particle of moderation, classified as one of several flavors based on its mass and spin.
- Karmon/Antikarmon - elementary particles of karma, created in the energetic collision of a modon with its target.
- Submiton - elementary particle of story submission. An editor bogon struck by an energetic submiton will occasionally release a facton.
- Facton - one of a class of particles of information, consisting of origons and dupons. A story is a macroscopic mass of factons.
- Origon - elementary particle of originality. As the Slashdot universe expands, the total mass of origons remains constant.
- Anti-origon (Dupon) - elementary particle of nonoriginality. Origons and dupons cannot exist in close proximity. Observed increases in dupon frequency indicate that Slashdot's core is far more dense than previously thought, and may cause the Slashdot universe to eventually collapse rather than expand indefinitely.
- Penguon - elementary particle of Linux. Very stable.
- Redmon - elementary particle of Windows. Unstable, but incredibly massive.
Any others?Sadly, I have actually wondered this before, and I have wanted a list.
I don't know whether to thank Slashdot for this list, or if this list shows I need to not be such a geek. =)
Humon - a humor particle sadly missing from your post.
(i only intended for the other post to be humorous to those who read at 0)
no offense.
For those that have ever wondered how many different subatomic particles are currently classified...
:-)
I think it must be an artifact of where I work, but my first thought was that subatomic particles aren't classified. Heck, they're freely available for the general public to use!
If they were classified, would they be Secret Restricted Data? Confidential National Security Information? For Official Use Only?
Particle physicists get hadrons?
http://members.aol.com/cclinker/subatom.htm
Unfortunately, its text based, so you don't get to see the symbols and pictures and what not...but hey, its a bigger list!
I thought it was about genitalia.
This is not nearly the complete list of particles. The complete list of known and predicted particles is organized by the Particle Data Group at LBL. You can see the listings in PDF or PS formats. You can also order a FREE (as in both speech and beer) hard copy of the listings, just published this summer. It is about the size of 2 phone books, but they also have a free pocket version.
Don't Bogart the fish sticks
Wow! Exactly what I wanted for christmas!
Can you make a Beowolf cluster of these?
On a similar note, they don't mention the graviton. I would rate the quark and the graviton the same on the six-pack scale of believability: I'm willing to bet a six-pack that either one exists.
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