Voltage blog entries tagged with: atoms

If you can write about particle physics and be funny - and funny that a non-physicist can get - then you're awesome. This article on atom-smashing of gold atoms from The Register is great:

(To explain: Normal humdrum matter and antimatter have zero strangeness. Rarely, strange, or even positively-strange stuff may be seen. Most outrageously of all, it is possible to have matter or antimatter whose strangeness is not zero, not positive, but negative. This strangely-strange stuff, by definition unstrange - ultramundane – infraboring – twists and mangles not only the fabric of spacetime but that of the English language too.)