People have long asked, "What is the world made of?" and "What holds it together?"

April 21, 2007 8:06 AM

The Particle Adventure.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane (14 comments total)

Or see quarks dance! For the heavier stuff, subscribe to Symmetry magazine - it's free.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 8:06 AM on April 21, 2007 [1 favorite]

yes!
posted by god particle at 8:26 AM on April 21, 2007

This reminds me of the old classic Britney's Guide to Semiconductor Physics.
posted by Rhomboid at 8:36 AM on April 21, 2007

Fantastic. Thanks for this.
posted by ceiriog at 9:37 AM on April 21, 2007

This is a strange delight on my rainy Saturday.
posted by carsonb at 10:41 AM on April 21, 2007

Atoms remind me of fight clouds.
posted by Anything at 11:18 AM on April 21, 2007

Nobody tell Triangle Man.
posted by JHarris at 11:32 AM on April 21, 2007 [1 favorite]

I always liked Tiny Toons's version of the real particle adventure.
posted by sparkletone at 11:54 AM on April 21, 2007

Ah sparkletone! Beat you to it! Are you depressed? Are you a mess? Are you totally worthless?

(Dammit, that song's going to be running through my head for days again.)
posted by JHarris at 2:09 PM on April 21, 2007

This is really good. Thanks.
posted by Methylviolet at 3:18 PM on April 21, 2007

Ah sparkletone! Beat you to it!

You were the first to reference the song, so yeah, you beat me to that.

But you know what I did that you didn't do?

I linked to the Tiny Toons video for the song. You didn't do that at all.

Everyone's a winner!
posted by sparkletone at 3:23 PM on April 21, 2007

Is true, is true.

Right now I wish I had enough MP3 search mojo to find a link to "Schoolchildren Singing Particle Man" from off of Then: The Earlier Years which I reckon would put be back in the lead.
posted by JHarris at 7:04 PM on April 21, 2007

I really liked this. Thank you.

And remember: we're 60% water and 99.999999999999% nothing!
posted by kisch mokusch at 7:37 PM on April 21, 2007

Good stuff, and links from both this and the Quark Dance are definitely worth following.
posted by bumpkin at 9:09 PM on April 21, 2007