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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 06:02 PM
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Poll question: Choose a subatomic particle right now...
Don't give it a lot of thought. Just look at the list and choose one of the tiny critters!
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 06:30 PM
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1. We had cats named for subatomic particles...
Positron (whom we nicknamed Zitty)
Electron (Lekky)
Ion (Tourette's Kitty)
and Quark (Quarkifer)

They're in Kitty Heaven now.
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 08:41 PM
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8. We had a cat named Zener,
after zener diode, an electronic part.
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JustABozoOnThisBus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 06:38 PM
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2. I always liked Charm
a pleasant name.

:hi:
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 07:24 PM
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3. Where are the fucking muons?
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 09:29 PM
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12. My dear rug!
That's what I want to know!

We had a cat named Muon...our sub-atomic cat!

Plus we had a Dalmation named Meson! Those are medium-weight, black and white particles...


:hi:
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-19-09 01:01 AM
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14. In fucking Jersey?
:shrug:
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 07:28 PM
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4. I chose one before I saw the list: gluons
Without them, nothing sticks together
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 07:46 PM
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5. Electron. No contest. nt
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PVnRT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 08:05 PM
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6. Anti-Charm Quark
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 08:27 PM
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7. Top quark
175 GeV/c^2 baby!


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Prisoner_Number_Six Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 09:27 PM
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11. Don't you mean...
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-19-09 01:03 AM
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15. He's the strangest quark of all
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 09:24 PM
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9. Electron.
Because of all the -ics.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 09:26 PM
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10. The Strange Quark!
:D
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-19-09 12:55 AM
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13. C'mon, everybody!
Edited on Wed Aug-19-09 01:04 AM by MilesColtrane
Show some love for the neutrino.

There's fifty trillion passing through your body every second, and they don't give you gas.
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ccharles000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-19-09 01:36 AM
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16. Why would anyone choose Glenn Beck's Penis
Edited on Wed Aug-19-09 01:47 AM by ccharles000
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Vidar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-19-09 05:21 AM
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17. "Quark is still a Ferengi to me."
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Q3JR4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-19-09 06:20 AM
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18. Strange Quark
because...why be normal?

Q3JR4.
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-19-09 06:28 AM
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19. Antiphoton.
It's emitted when visible photon strike Dick Cheney.
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-19-09 06:45 AM
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20. Fuckin' W BOSONS! YEAH!!!!
Edited on Wed Aug-19-09 06:46 AM by old mark
Love them little tykes.....

They are so positive they are perky!

mark
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