Particle Ponderer Gifts

'Quarks, neturinos, mesons. All those damn particles you can't see. That's what drove me to drink. But now i can see them!'

Strange Matter pop out of the quantum foam to debate the possible existence of particle physics.

"I hate being around electrons. They're so negative."

Time, Temp, Today's Neutrino Mass

"Once you have a collider, every problem starts to look like a particle."

After years of experimentation, scientists remain dubious about whether there really is such a thing as the Cute Particle.

"Of course you can't put your finger on it. It's a hypothetical particle."

"Hello! - Have you ever thought about changing your energy supplier..?"

"Speed is its defining quality - hence the name 'Large' Hadron Collider."

Physicist Frank Bartholomew gets a big, BIG break in his search for the ever-elusive neutrino.

The Physicist is in

"But if you've given up on a fifth force, how can you possibly discover a sixth force?"

Nigel finds the Higgs boson.

"I just have time to make some toast, analyze its particle sizes, its density, its chemisorption..."

Are you aware? The Higgs Boson was thought to exist even through no one had seen it!

Dr. McPhee discovers the Embarrassment Particle.

Late that night, Professor Robinson's laboratory was overrun by hostile elements.

'I'm dubious. Neutrinos may be bigger than we thought, but they're not that big.'

'Oh, thunderation! Now everyone will want one and every little, rinky dink nation on earth will claim the inalienable right to own one. And the Chinese will pirate it and flood the market . . .'

The mysterious world of ligand substitution

'Of course you can't put your finger on it. It's a hypothetical particle.'

"One hundred million neutrinos are passing through our bodies every second, and we're worried about the price of coffee."

Physicists at the Fourth Grotschlov Conference assembled to determine once and for all if light is a wave or a particle.

"But if the particle is too small and too short-lived to detect, we can't just take it on faith that you've discovered it."

"If this is correct, then everything we thought was a wave is really a particle, and everything we thought was a particle is really a wave."

"How will you feel when we find the final quark?"

'Houston, I'm prepared to land...'

Schrodinger's Black Box

"Your assumption that a one in a million chance event MUST be a miracle shows you drastically underestimate the total number of regularly occurring events."

"What's your favorite planet, Randy?" "There is only one answer, little buddy. There is only one planet full of lush, green forests and beautiful, windswept ocean vista... all of which are natural aphrodisiacs that inspire lovers, philosophers and poets." "You know, Pandora is not a real planet." "I'm talking about Earth, you... Do you ever go outside?"

"Exactly how undecided would you say you were at this precise moment?"

"Quantum Physics"? How am I going to learn all of this stuff? A bit at a time?

"What if Newton came up with a different idea from a fallen apple."

"Today we'll examine that age old question of robot accomplishment: programming or processor?"

NASA, 'I thought I smelled oxygen!'