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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
+ | {{incomplete|Created by A RELATIVISTIC WALUIGI ANNIHILATING AN UNSUSPECTING LUIGI - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
− | + | In {{w|particle physics}}, a depiction such as a {{w|Feynman diagram}} can be used to try to explain elementary (and composite) particles, and how various interactions occur between them. At the atomic level, this may involve the bulky nucleons (protons and neutrons, these being each a particular triumvirate of quark 'flavors'), electrons (smaller, charged fermions) and various others (such as neutrinos, also fermions, chargeless and often ''nearly'' massless). Sometimes other more exotic/fundamental particles (force-mediating or otherwise transient) are included. | |
− | + | Added within the {{w|standard model}} are the "{{w|antiparticle}}s" that are oppositely charged (or built up of more fundamental antiparticles), and further issues have required extending this further through theories of {{w|supersymmetry}} which further adds counterparts that have alternate '{{w|Spin (physics)|spin}}'s. | |
− | + | This comic conflates the theoretical physics concept of supersymmetry with something else commonly known to use "super" in its name, namely {{w|Super Mario Bros.}} developed for the {{w|Nintendo Entertainment System}}, and gives an explanation that humorously combines the two unrelated topics by showing direct equivalence between certain subatomic particles and the {{w|Super Mario World}} (and beyond) characters in one version of the process of {{w|free neutron decay}}. Mario is the titular protagonist of his franchise and Luigi is his brother. Both are central to the plot of Mario games, in a similar manner to the nucleus being the center of an atom. | |
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+ | The following subatomic particles are alluded to (and renamed) in this comic. | ||
{| class="wikitable" style="margin:auto" | {| class="wikitable" style="margin:auto" | ||
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| ≲1 {{w|Dalton (unit)|m<sub>u</sub>}} | | ≲1 {{w|Dalton (unit)|m<sub>u</sub>}} | ||
| Mario | | Mario | ||
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| {{w|Neutron}} | | {{w|Neutron}} | ||
| n / n⁰ | | n / n⁰ | ||
| Baryon<br/>('udd' quarks) | | Baryon<br/>('udd' quarks) | ||
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| ≳1 m<sub>u</sub> | | ≳1 m<sub>u</sub> | ||
| Luigi | | Luigi | ||
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| {{w|Antiproton}}<br/>(not involved in the diagram) | | {{w|Antiproton}}<br/>(not involved in the diagram) | ||
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| as proton* | | as proton* | ||
| Wario | | Wario | ||
− | | | + | | Wario is the "evil" version of Mario |
|- | |- | ||
| {{w|Antineutron}}<br/>(not involved in the diagram) | | {{w|Antineutron}}<br/>(not involved in the diagram) | ||
| <span style="text-decoration: overline">n</span> / n<sup>-0</sup> | | <span style="text-decoration: overline">n</span> / n<sup>-0</sup> | ||
| Antibaryon<br/>('<span style="text-decoration: overline">udd</span>' quarks) | | Antibaryon<br/>('<span style="text-decoration: overline">udd</span>' quarks) | ||
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| as neutron* | | as neutron* | ||
| Waluigi | | Waluigi | ||
− | | | + | | Waluigi is the "evil" version of Luigi |
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| {{w|Electron}} | | {{w|Electron}} | ||
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| 5.5x10<sup>-4</sup> m<sub>u</sub> | | 5.5x10<sup>-4</sup> m<sub>u</sub> | ||
| (Princess) Peach | | (Princess) Peach | ||
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| {{w|Positron}} / Antielectron<br/>(not depicted/involved) | | {{w|Positron}} / Antielectron<br/>(not depicted/involved) | ||
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| Assumed >0<br/>(very small*) | | Assumed >0<br/>(very small*) | ||
| (Princess) Daisy | | (Princess) Daisy | ||
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| Electron {{w|Neutrino#Antineutrinos|Antineutrino}}<br/>(not depicted, hypothetical) | | Electron {{w|Neutrino#Antineutrinos|Antineutrino}}<br/>(not depicted, hypothetical) | ||
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− | <nowiki/>* - to within experimental | + | <nowiki/>* - to within experimental error |
− | The | + | The right-handed Daisy (Electron Neutrino) means that Daisy’s direction of spin (in subatomic terms, a measurement which does not now match that of the angular momentum in classical physics which inspired its naming) is the same as the direction of motion. A left-handed Daisy (Electron Neutrino) would have the opposite value. |
− | + | Certain current understandings of the process require that the electron neutrino be an ''anti''neutrino, but antineutrinos have not so far been sufficiently confirmed to exist, with some theorising that a neutrino can be its own anti-particle (unlike the neutral neutron, composed of charged quarks, which has the similarly neutral antineutron, composed of oppositely charged antiquarks). The title text is a pun on the title of the Nintendo 64 game ''{{w|The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask}}'' and the concept of {{w|Majorana fermion}}, which attempts to reconcile how, while many particles have separate antiparticle counterparts, certain ones do not. Until this is resolved, scientists may depict a theoretical antiparticle in place of a neutrino in order to preserve various total values across the diagram. But scientists do wonder if a neutrino is its own antiparticle, much as they have also previously wondered if {{w|Neutrino oscillation|they also flip their 'flavor'}} as a way to explain certain experimental results. | |
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− | The title text is a pun on the title of the Nintendo 64 game ''{{w|The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask}}'' and the concept of {{w|Majorana fermion}}, which attempts to reconcile how, while many particles have separate antiparticle counterparts, certain ones do not. Until this is resolved, scientists may depict a theoretical antiparticle in place of a neutrino in order to preserve various total values across the diagram. But scientists do wonder if a neutrino is its own antiparticle, much as they have also previously wondered if {{w|Neutrino oscillation|they also flip their 'flavor'}} as a way to explain certain experimental results | ||
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− | + | Baby Park is an oval-shaped race track in the ''{{w|Mario Kart}}'' series and used as a particle collider in the title text, first featured in ''{{w|Mario Kart: Double Dash|Mario Kart: Double Dash!!}}'' on the Nintendo GameCube. | |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
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:Mario : Proton | :Mario : Proton | ||
:Luigi : Neutron | :Luigi : Neutron | ||
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:Free Luigi decay: | :Free Luigi decay: | ||
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:[Label below Daisy:] (Right-handed) | :[Label below Daisy:] (Right-handed) | ||