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bainidhe_dub:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 12 Jul 2014, 07:39 ---Laurel's Kitchen
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Have you tried her falafel recipe? It's excellent.
cesium133:
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 13 Jul 2014, 07:07 ---
The other possibility is anti-matter. Which is a whole other ball game that might be best explained by Montgomery Scott. (Also not theoretical just rare and dangerous)
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Anti-matter is fun. :-D CERN has a project where they trap antihydrogen atoms to perform experiments on them. And contrary to certain movies, antihydrogen atoms cannot destroy the world.
Aimless:
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 13 Jul 2014, 07:07 ---Nope. Let's go over to Professor GM for a brief explanation shall we?
A quark is an elementary particle and fundamental building block of all matter. Quarks team up to form giant robots err... composite particles called hadrons (HADrons. Perverts.) the most stable of which are protons and neutrons, the components of atomic nuclei.
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Quarks also come in several different exciting flavours, some of which are charming or just strange :x
I have discovered something delicious:
Take some couscous
Add a stock-cube (I used chicken)
Add hot water
Add a very small amount of oyster-sauce
Add some olive-oil (we used something truffle-flavoured but it's the olivey flavour that's important)
Add some seaweed of the ogonori variety
It is SO TASTY! It can probably be varied with eg. a tiny hint of chili, a little teensy weensy bit of ginger- and onion-juice etc but it's just really yummy all on its own :) served it with oven-roasted salmon (roasted half a salmon last night and slathered it with a sauce made from oyster-sauce, sesame-seed oil, chipotle paste and some other stuff), cucumber and tomatoes from our balcony-jungle.
I wish the lettuce of lies would be replaced with the seaweed of scrumptiousness :(
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 13 Jul 2014, 07:07 ---
--- Quote from: Gareth on 13 Jul 2014, 03:34 ---
--- Quote from: Lupercal on 10 Jul 2014, 09:58 ---Then I suggest you stay away from cottage cheese's special younger brother, Quark.
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Isn't that a tiny theoretical molecule that could destroy the Earth?
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Nope. Let's go over to Professor GM for a brief explanation shall we?
A quark is an elementary particle and fundamental building block of all matter. Quarks team up to form giant robots err... composite particles called hadrons (HADrons. Perverts.) the most stable of which are protons and neutrons, the components of atomic nuclei.
You're probably thinking of the Higgs boson, who's discovery was announced by CERN on 4 July 2012 after being proposed in 1964. This is very important because it helps validate some of the untested areas of Standard Model physics. The boson itself isn't dangerous, in fact theoretically we're filled with them. The "danger" from the Higgs Boson was more centered around people who thought turning on the LHC would somehow generate a black hole. (A neat party trick)
The other possibility is anti-matter. Which is a whole other ball game that might be best explained by Montgomery Scott. (Also not theoretical just rare and dangerous)
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It wasn't the Higgs boson I was thinking of, my brother a while ago on his website (www.qntm.org) did an article on a series of ways you could destroy the Earth and one of them was quark-based, I know that much.
Interesting side note, Rush Limbaugh ended up reading almost the entire article out on air and using it as 'proof' that SUVs don't harm the planet. So... there's that.
cesium133:
Ah, yeah, one of the conspiracy theories that people circulated about CERN was that the strange quarks produced in the reactions were going to convert up and down quarks in ordinary matter into strange quarks and destroy the world... :psyduck:
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