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They found the Higgs Boson!
No they haven’t actually, although Eric’s girlfriend threw me for a loop by sending me an IM with that headline.
However, my disappointment quickly melted by the website she linked me to and the adorable particles therein:
The Higgs Boson - found!
They’re brought to you by “The Particle Zoo”, which was inspired when an aspiring physicist realized that each particle seemed to have its own “personality” — why not make them into little plushies? I happen to think the Gluon and Dark Matter are especially cute:
Particle Zoo promises the release of “anatomically correct” particles (so probably breaking out some of the particles into their quark “components”) and some sort of “quantum duck” in 2009.
The real question now is, who will buy me one for the holidays?