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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.
That's pretty cool, thanks for the knowledge drop! Already feeling smarter.
On the matter of naming: I can confirm that scientists can't take shit serious, looking at the Cox-Zucker-Machine (Math) or the RING-Finger Domain and the Sonic hedgehog gene (Biology). Fucking nerds.
Good lock on your thesis defense!
It's either that or the Sonic Hedgehog protein (and the inhibitor "Robotnikinin")
I am proud of silly naming traditions. I named one experiment I worked on godXilla and the other I work on is named CRAB (hoping I don't doxx myself letting that out lol)
Do I look like I know what an axion is?
Isn't it one of those things Pythagoras made up
I can hear this picture.