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The article has some more instances of pysicists naming things: "The partner of the Higgs, the higgsino." "The partner of the top quark, the stop squark."
by WithinReason 5y ago
The article has some more instances of pysicists naming things:
"The partner of the Higgs, the higgsino."
"The partner of the top quark, the stop squark."
- steerablesafe 5y agoMandatory SMBC: https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=1452#comic https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=1452#comic
- wongarsu 5y agoThe stop squark is one of the sfermions (the superpartner particles of their associated fermions). As such they are all sparticles. Some of the other sfermions would be the sup squark, the scharm squark, the sstrange squark, the selectron or the stau. [1] In my opinion physicists are great at naming things :D 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sfermion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sfermion
- saalweachter 5y agoIt seems kind of seems hipster. "I'll name the particles something that I can later disavow as a joke if people don't like it, so I'm not risking myself."
- mbg721 5y agoI mean, you only get to use "Particle McParticleFace" once.
- Taniwha 5y agoPretty sure it's its own anti-particle
- whatshisface 5y agoWhat alternative would you propose? Greek naming? Latin?
- WithinReason 5y agoOh yes, I loved it since the Big Bang and the Very Large Telescope!
- jrootabega 5y agoNo, I'm sparticles.
- pfdietz 5y agoThose supersymmetric particles have the disadvantage of not having any evidence they exist. I am sad for all those physics grad students who went into supersymmetry and string theory.