Comments on: Orbitals

By: Faye Kane Homeless Brain

Faye Kane Homeless Brain — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:40:30 +0000

This is the last one you have tagges as “sex”? There are a LOT more xkcd fuck comics, but when I posted a link to my blog entry containing them all, I was banned for spamming, so fuck you. Look them up yourself.

- faye kane
homeless naked autistic savant

PS
You ARE the same people who run the xkcd discussion forum, right?

right?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:34:10 +0000

I wrote the below before you corrected! Thanks for correcting yourself. We appreciate it.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:33:24 +0000

Sorry, Michael, no.

http://www.particleadventure.org/fermibos.html
A fermion is any particle that has an odd half-integer (like 1/2, 3/2, and so forth) spin. Quarks and leptons, as well as most composite particles, like protons and neutrons, are fermions.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/HBASE/particles/spinc.html#c2
Fermions are particles which have half-integer spin and therefore are constrained by the Pauli exclusion principle. Particles with integer spin are called bosons. Fermions incude electrons, protons, neutrons.

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/Fermion.html
Fermions act on each other by exchanging bosons. Examples include leptons (such as the electron), neutrons, protons and quarks.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:26:37 +0000

Wrong! They are… sorry.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:09:27 +0000

Protons and neutrons are not fermions

By: Bracken

Bracken — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:14:49 +0000

Your highest/lowest designations are backwards compared to common terminology. The most favorable states would be the lowest, not the highest.

Also, I maintain that the image text should have included some spin-state/sex-position joke