The six flavors of quarks

http://xkcd.com/474/

(Alt-text: Supercollider? I 'ardly know 'er!)

There are six different types of quarks, usually known as flavors: up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom. The charm, strange, top, and bottom varieties are highly unstable, and are believed to have decayed within a fraction of a second after the Big Bang – though they can be briefly recreated and studied by scientists. However, the "up" and "down" varieties are abundant and are distinguished by (amongst other things) their electric charge. It is this which makes the difference when quarks clump together to form protons or neutrons: a proton is made up of two "up quarks" and one "down quark", yielding a net charge of +1, while a neutron contains one "up quark" and two "down quarks", yielding a net charge of 0.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark

The six flavors of quarks

http://xkcd.com/474/

(Alt-text: Supercollider? I 'ardly know 'er!)

There are six different types of quarks, usually known as flavors: up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom. The charm, strange, top, and bottom varieties are highly unstable, and are believed to have decayed within a fraction of a second after the Big Bang – though they can be briefly recreated and studied by scientists. However, the "up" and "down" varieties are abundant and are distinguished by (amongst other things) their electric charge. It is this which makes the difference when quarks clump together to form protons or neutrons: a proton is made up of two "up quarks" and one "down quark", yielding a net charge of +1, while a neutron contains one "up quark" and two "down quarks", yielding a net charge of 0.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark

The six flavors of quarks

http://xkcd.com/474/

(Alt-text: Supercollider? I 'ardly know 'er!)

There are six different types of quarks, usually known as flavors: up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom. The charm, strange, top, and bottom varieties are highly unstable, and are believed to have decayed within a fraction of a second after the Big Bang – though they can be briefly recreated and studied by scientists. However, the "up" and "down" varieties are abundant and are distinguished by (amongst other things) their electric charge. It is this which makes the difference when quarks clump together to form protons or neutrons: a proton is made up of two "up quarks" and one "down quark", yielding a net charge of +1, while a neutron contains one "up quark" and two "down quarks", yielding a net charge of 0.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark

Being Alice: Whirlwind

Well.
Fuck.
There I go again.
I kept track. It's been over a month since the last one.
Strike that down again.
It is not helping this flare, the chronic pain, the other hellish invisible neurological disability.
Things are worse, things are a little slice of hell.
Caught up. Torn apart.
Howling.
Darkness.
Spin around.
Fall down.
My spine curls and crawls and shivers and I just want it to--
Stop.
Purple half moon fingernail marks in my palms. Jaw aching from the clench and grind.
Throat raw from silent screams that struggled and were beaten back.
Pulse hammering and frantic.
Just me and the cats, and the cats stare at me as if they could bring me back.
Maybe they did.
The littlest one is purring in my lap as I write this, her front paws kneading my shirt. Her eyes are huge.
Her eyes are huge.
Excuse me, I must hug my kitten.

Being Alice: Whirlwind

Well.
Fuck.
There I go again.
I kept track. It's been over a month since the last one.
Strike that down again.
It is not helping this flare, the chronic pain, the other hellish invisible neurological disability.
Things are worse, things are a little slice of hell.
Caught up. Torn apart.
Howling.
Darkness.
Spin around.
Fall down.
My spine curls and crawls and shivers and I just want it to--
Stop.
Purple half moon fingernail marks in my palms. Jaw aching from the clench and grind.
Throat raw from silent screams that struggled and were beaten back.
Pulse hammering and frantic.
Just me and the cats, and the cats stare at me as if they could bring me back.
Maybe they did.
The littlest one is purring in my lap as I write this, her front paws kneading my shirt. Her eyes are huge.
Her eyes are huge.
Excuse me, I must hug my kitten.

Being Alice: Whirlwind

Well.
Fuck.
There I go again.
I kept track. It's been over a month since the last one.
Strike that down again.
It is not helping this flare, the chronic pain, the other hellish invisible neurological disability.
Things are worse, things are a little slice of hell.
Caught up. Torn apart.
Howling.
Darkness.
Spin around.
Fall down.
My spine curls and crawls and shivers and I just want it to--
Stop.
Purple half moon fingernail marks in my palms. Jaw aching from the clench and grind.
Throat raw from silent screams that struggled and were beaten back.
Pulse hammering and frantic.
Just me and the cats, and the cats stare at me as if they could bring me back.
Maybe they did.
The littlest one is purring in my lap as I write this, her front paws kneading my shirt. Her eyes are huge.
Her eyes are huge.
Excuse me, I must hug my kitten.