#there's these tiny bisons that make things have mass and they wear tiny mexican hats on their little particle heads. | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

nostalgia-tblr · 11 days ago

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physics is great, the physicists say things like "for the first fourteen point two bajillionoths of a second the universe was made entirely of bananas. and then the fruit field collapsed and for the next twelve nanoblinks there were only electrons and apricots" and i just go "that's great, tell me more" and yet despite the temptation to do so i don't think they're even trolling me, i think the thing about the fruit field might actually be true. or have been true for fourteen gigaquadillionths of a second after the big bang. aren't we lucky that happened or we'd all just be made of bananas? what a strange universe we inhabit.

#i love skience it's so weird sometimes #i am watching a youtube video about the higgs potential #the scientist is trying to make it understandable to laymen but i have no fucking clue whether any of this is true it just seems cool.#there's these tiny bisons that make things have mass and they wear tiny mexican hats on their little particle heads.#but also they're not particles they're a field and this is true of all the other things that we know like electrons and quarks and odos.#but maybe not neutrinos as there is a chance those are all left-handed which would mean they don't talk to the hat bisons at all.#this is fantastic stuff i love it. they should add new particles every few decades just to keep us all on our toes.

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