#subatomic physics

[napkineater]

Everyone cmon and answer. Collecting data.

What’s your favorite quark?

Up quark

Down quark

Top quark

Bottom quark

Strange quark

Charm quark

Voting ended onSep 10, 2025

[noosphe-re]

Classification of ground state mesons (left) and baryons (right) (from “Quarkmodel” in Review of Particle Physics2020) Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

[newsotu]

Explosive Discovery in Subatomic Physics

Physicist Marek Karliner of University of Chicago has made a recent discovery in Subatomic physics. It was found that when two tiny particles called bottom quarks fused together, they created another subatomic particle called a nucleon, alongside a large amount of energy. This energetic event clocked in at 138 MeV, which is 8 times more powerful than the 17.6 MeV individual fusion that occurs inside a hydrogen bomb.

However, this explosion will have no military application due to the short period of time that the bottom quarks exists: 1 picosecond, the same amount of time it takes light to travel half a single grain of salt. After that picosecond, it was found that the bottom quarks decayed into less energetic up-quarks.

As of yet, these reactions are still theoretical as they have yet to be tested in a lab, but the implications they hold could prove to be potentially fruitful in future works.

Read more about this fascinating story at: https://www.livescience.com/60847-charm-quark-fusion-subatomic-hydrogen-bomb.html

Or read the full study at: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24289

[sapphic-ai]

Wishing y’all and your partners a strong force interaction to keep your nucleic relationship together for hundreds of thousands of years.

[napkineater]

See the thing is some people with hyperfixations (and special interest tbh) is that they go into “learn everything that has ever existed abt the topic NOWWWW” mode

My brain doesn’t do that. Like for a while I got super into subatomic physics and got stuck just on the fact that down quarks exist. pretty much just “DOWN QUARKS DOWN QUARKS DOWN QUARKS DOWN QUARKS DOWN QUARKSS DOWN QUA—-“ forever and ever and then I got stuck on doofenshmirtz existing so now I’m there instead

[angelofsmalld34th]

[angelofsmalld34th]

[arcades-the-omnipotent-blog]

An Observation

Have you ever wondered how strange it is that we spend hours of our lives looking at small black markings made with soot on highly processed wood and mentally constructing them into complex ideas, scenarios, and plots?

How amusing is it that we enjoy staring at changing patterns of tiny coloured lights while having our eardrums agitated by specifically-generated vibrations in the air?

And how fundamentally weird it is that some people spend their lives learning how to smash really tiny things together at extremely high speeds in order to figure out what the beginning of time was like?

Anything can seem weird when you look at it from an abstract perspective.