Modern Quantum Theory Quark (a “song”)
My final project for SPU 20… Lyrics: I am the very model of a modern quantum theory quark, I make up everything you know from minerals to Tony Stark Think of the smallest thing you can, I’m smaller than an atom’s parts To understand me, Harvard kid, you’ll have to use all of your smarts Let’s start off with the basics, you know atoms are the building blocks Inside the atom, protons, neutrons, and electrons, not a shock But let’s go smaller, shall we, to the really fundamental bits To quarks, force carriers, and leptons, see what you can make of it. Let’s start with quarks, they’re particles, not characters from DS9 There are six flavors, they’re in pairs, know all of them and you’ll be fine There’s up and down, and charm and strange, and top and bottom, that’s all six These particles are fundamental, take that with an asterisk Now quarks have charge, but here’s the thing, that charge is not an integer For up and charm and top, just know it is a positive two thirds For down and strange and bottom it’s one third but it is negative. For each of these the anti version’s charge is plus or minus switched. Quarks come in hadrons only, these are little groups of two or three The groups of two and three are mesons, baryons respectively A proton is a baryon, a neutron is a baryon But a quark and anti-quark’s a meson, now it’s time to carry on Now on to leptons, you’ll find there are only six of those to see Each neutrino and matching lepton make up lepton families The negative 1 …
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AMAZING
I’m a chem. teacher who just had my students do the Particle Adventure as a webquest. I think they’ll enjoy your take on it!
@emiblake hahahaha
marry me!
Pretty damn good…for an English major ; )
wow awesome! helped alot!
this is sooo awesome!! i just had to subscribe, sorry
@BeavisNacho Thanks for the suggestion! Those are so cool!
@JediVulcanTimeLord Are you familiar with Rob Bryanton ?? Goto his imaginingthetenthdimension blog and then to 26 songs.
Awesome! And bonus points for the Star Trek joke! More people should write songs about particle physics.
Oh, wow…I cannot believe I made that G&S joke about your Bolingbroke. Then I see this, and I’m like “I AM A GENIUS!” Seriously, though, that joke was unintentional. But as it turns out, rather fitting! Great vid
Nice job
Beautiful!
Beautiful! I hope you got an amazing mark!
@emiblake lol… its Eduardo
@HighLow2008 I love you too, mystery person!
@nemfi89five Thanks!
Wonderful!
@emiblake he said it was AWESOME.
@katana767 Thanks – let me know what your teacher thinks
THAT. IS. FREAKING. AMAZING. I am sending this to my physics teacher, for sure!!!
Dear Emily,
I love you.
That is all.