The Particle Zoo is home to hand-sewn plushies meant to represent subatomic particles. Their weights vary according to their properties--heavy guys like the Higgs Boson are stuffed with sand, while massless bosons are stuffed with fluffy polyfil. Science nerds and crafters everywhere, rejoice! Link.
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Jan 23, 2008 03:00 PM
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Wow! When in college studying the standard model of physics I used to draw subatomic particles as cartoon characters to help me remember them. To me quarks were always fuzzy. The Higgs Boson was a bully cos he bashed all the other particles to give them mass :-)
It's very cool to see this. If only to reassure me that I'm not completely mad and the only person to think like this.
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how wonderfully impractically strange! teach them physics while still in the cradle! science nerds have a collection of their favourite elements on their shelf! they're so cute...
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