These are my favorite science memes because they make me feel a little what boomers feel. I saw an article about a particle I’ve never heard of called “Axions” and I have had it up to here with all these newfangled particles.
Axions are super cool, they solve two longstanding questions in particle physics (they are a potential dark matter candidate and solve the Strong Charge-Parity problem) and are named after a brand of soap because they clean up the standard model of physics, I shit you not. I am about to finish my PhD in particle physics and spend a lot of time studying the types of detectors being used to look for dark matter (axions, wimps, etc), as they are adjacent to the detectors I use in my field of neutrino physics.
named after a brand of soap because they clean up the standard model of physics Ah, scientists, so silly. One of my favourite silly names in my field is naming the gene that causes fruit flies to be extra susceptible to alcohol “Cheap date”
It’s either that or the Sonic Hedgehog protein (and the inhibitor “Robotnikinin”)
This will confuse our kids!
DOWN WITH ADVANCED PHYSICS!
“Schools need to stop teaching my kids about how their crotches function! That’s the parent’s job!”
So when are you going to teach them?
“Fuck you! That would be uncomfortable so never! And if their ignorance gets them in trouble I will be there to condemn them for their mistakes and never let them forget it like any good parent!”
Well, when I was in school, we learned there were only three states of matter. Then I heard about plasma, and I don’t agree with it, but at least it wasn’t doing much harm. But this “nuclear pasta” stuff is too far, it’s clearly an attempt by the Italian agenda to indoctrinate our kids.
damn this place is even gayer than reddit
I see this as an absolute win!
dark matter is in fact a mental illness and does not exist
and einstein was wrong
To me its tragic that the smartest human to exist in living memory had his societal, socialist worldview swept under the rug by the capitalist pigs. We acknowledge he laid the groundwork for our understanding of physical reality itself, but sure lets pretend he didn’t know what he was talking about with regard to improving our relatively simple by comparison exploitative inter-monkey social systems.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of_Albert_Einstein
