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The Art of Particle Physics
PhysicsDavid writes to tell us about an article in Symmetry magazine. Jan-Henrik Anderson, a designer with a background in architecture, has collaborated with several particle physicists to develop visual representations of particles based on their physical characteristics. It is the closest most will ever get to 'seeing' a top quark.
But I don't see much difference in the representation of top and down quarks in the panels shown.
Lucky you. I don't see a damn thing because Slashdot has destroyed another unlucky webserver.
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> Lucky you. I don't see a damn thing because Slashdot has destroyed another unlucky webserver.
You're leaping to conclusions.
I also don't see a damn thing, but from that I can conclude only that Slashdot has placed a webserver in a superposition of states between lucky-and-destroyed, lucky-and-not-destroyed, unlucky-and-destroyed, and unlucky-and-not-destroyed.
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It's perfect. When you go there, you see nothing. This is probably the best way to visually describe a quark - something which is, for all intents and purposes, nothing that builds something.
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I guess that depends on where you reside at the time of slashdotting: red shifted in anger as the server admin, or blue shifted as the sad slashreader who never got to see the original article.
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No matter, their server went down faster than desperate prom date and the google cache is only from the previous edition so we can't see it anyway. Just like the real thing! :)
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It is the closest most will ever get to 'seeing' a top quark.
What about seeing a "top-less" quark?
Physical diagram basics
Electron: Draw small circle with minus sign in it.
Proton: Draw small but slightly larger circle with plus sign in it.
Quark: Fire up raytracing software. For hardcopy, be sure to have a color printer handy.
So much for back-of-a-napkin physics.
Rich
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Oh dear, it's the Heisenberg Slashdotting Principle.
Sure beats, "Man on a chair" in my book any day.
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> It is the closest most will ever get to 'seeing' a top quark.
You figure there is some means whereby some will get closer?
Warning: this article may contain humor, sarcasm, parody, and perhaps even irony. Read at your own risk.
I wonder what these quarks sound like, smell like, or feel like.
Based on the universal poultry constant, the answer is intuitively Chicken.
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So if its symmetry magazine, does that mean that it prints twice as much pages as it normally would?
Ahhh so THATS what a photon looks like. I hadn't seen one before.
You guys are all funny.
All you had to do was look at it from a different point in time-space. It is now a day later and the server and images are fine.
Next time try not to be so three-dimensional.
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