Editing Talk:2351: Standard Model Changes

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Re: "but for the most part [the changes] are nonsensical"
I find the symbol changes pretty compelling, actually. Much clearer :)
[[Special:Contributions/172.69.34.210|172.69.34.210]] 00:05, 27 August 2020 (UTC)  Related: I was going to respond to Randall here with Talking Heads'  "Stop Making Sense"  :=)  [[User:Cellocgw|Cellocgw]] ([[User talk:Cellocgw|talk]]) 10:04, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Honestly, I'd vote to change every nu in physics to something else since its so damned hard to write differently and read lazily.
   
Yeah. Can we get the president of physics in here please? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.34.140|172.69.34.140]] 01:35, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
:There is no president. Changing names is probably ok, but if you want to change the physics like with removing of neutrinos, you need to talk to God. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 23:41, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Top/Bottom should probably be In/Out or Front/Back or something. And that's even before Randall's proposed changes. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.70|141.101.98.70]] 01:51, 27 August 2020 (UTC)  "T" and "B"  originally were going to be short for  [redacted] and Bums , back when sexism was rampant. Possibly that's an urban legend, but having been in Physics grad school around the time quarks became a thing, I can believe it.  [[User:Cellocgw|Cellocgw]] ([[User talk:Cellocgw|talk]]) 10:04, 27 August 2020 (UTC)


Didn't t/b stand for truth and beauty at some point, thus formerly lining up more favorably with strange and charm?  Also, a "cool bugs" ''boson'' with spin 1/2 would itself be a cool bug, in the sense of a glitch. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.34.150|172.69.34.150]] 05:07, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

It's a bit weird that he added left/right since most of the particle already come in left- and right-handed chirality.

Comic 2240 has a "cool bug epoch" in the expansion of the universe that could be linked from the "cool bug" particle in this comic. ----

The explanation says that the cool bugs particle goes into the scalar boson group, which isn't right because there isn't such a group here. Vin Diesel is a scalar, but the general agreement is that graviton has spin 2 (and for this reason it's also not really correct to move it to the gauge boson group). The group is more accurately called the everything else group. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.202.110|162.158.202.110]] 11:22, 27 August 2020 (UTC) anon


I posit the reason for "left, right" being in the order they are (instead of the more logical "right, left") is due to the Konami code being up, up, down, down, '''left, right''', etc... [[User:SiliconCarbide|SiliconCarbide]] ([[User talk:SiliconCarbide|talk]])
:Standard (American) English pairs Up-Down, Top-Bottom, and Left-Right, in that order, much like To-Fro, Here-There, Salt-Pepper and Shoes-Socks.  It is unusual to refer to Right-Left ordering in English. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.209|162.158.74.209]] 17:37, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

The Right/Strange description box included this: "What's strange is how Randall assigns the charm quark the left and the strange quark the right, when so many languages have it the other way around. But since when has Randall cared?"
Which is not at all clear.  What is it that languages have what other way around?
I moved it because it is so vague to seems meaningless.  If it was a useful observation, please clarify so somebody who doesn't know what it means already can understand. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.106.244|162.158.106.244]] 17:32, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Isn't a τ-Lepton just the same as two π-Leptons? That's why it's superflous. -[[Special:Contributions/162.158.202.86|162.158.202.86]] 17:54, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
:Except that π is a meson, not a lepton. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.108|108.162.215.108]] 04:39, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Most recent revision "(→‎Leptons: neutrons are universally lower-case n, ..." isn't strictly true in its reversion of a prior statement. {{w|Neutron|Wikipedia}} (amongst other places) states possible symbols of "n, n⁰, N⁰". The replacement information is probably not wrong, though. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.158.185|162.158.158.185]] 11:38, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

"Randall apparently considers magic to exist and be a particle, both of which are blatantly false." - but both the text of the comic and the sentence immediately after this one clearly state that it is ''intentionally'' inaccurate, so this seems like a strange claim to make. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.34.156|172.69.34.156]] 01:59, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

This is the first time I have seen an explainxkcd that blatantly and intentionally lies in the explanation. Jokes are common, especially the 'citation needed' meme. But your supposed to do that ''without'' any lies. Someone please fix it (especially the bug section) to be a funny, but accurate explanation as per the norm. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.226|108.162.237.226]] 17:37, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

I misread the right-most vertical caption [in the explanation's chart] as "secular bosuns" and didn't understand what the religious beliefs of seaman have to do with the rest. [[User:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For|These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For]] ([[User talk:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For|talk]]) 09:18, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Neutrinos naturally undergo flavor-changing oscillations, so the idea of getting rid of the extra generations is more reasonable than it seems at first. Electron neutrinos change to mu and tau neutrinos in flight and vice versa. Mentioning this simply because I didn't see anyone else mention it. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino_oscillation

"Higgs" loosely rhymes with "Pigs". I guess that's the reason why [[Randall]] doesn't want to use the name "Higgs". [[User:Unreliable Connection|2659: Unreliable Connection]] ([[User talk:Unreliable Connection|talk]]) 08:05, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
:Higgs ''exactly'' rhymes with Pigs, but there's absolutely no reason to believe that hS anything to do with anything. Stupid comment, made for stupid reason, and I think this needs highlighting more than it deserves to be swept under the carpet. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.229|172.70.162.229]] 19:44, 29 March 2023 (UTC)