Do you have a significant other who is hard to shop for? Then you just might like to get them one of these subatomic particle plush toys. To show them you really care, you could get them the whole Lepton 6-Pack, or even the whole set with antiparticles! (If you are in a hurry, I think the tachyon ones arrive before you order them.) Don’t forget the Quantum Chromodynamic dots to hold the quarks together…
I have not figured out if this site is a joke yet, but they do appear to accept money. Happy shopping.
July 10th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
I’ve plush viruses available for sale for a couple years now, so I guess it was time plush subatomic particles.
July 10th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
As the proud owner of a full set of particles (but not the anti-particles… I’m on a grad student budget), I can vouch that the site isn’t a joke.
See the site’s “news” page http://www.particlezoo.net/news.html for some nice press they’ve been getting.
July 10th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
… actually, didn’t Sean post this some time ago?
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/02/22/talk-like-a-physicist-day/
July 10th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
July 11th, 2008 at 4:37 am
Where are the sparticles?
July 11th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
I took the lepton 6-pack, and I’ve got quite the buzz going on now.
July 11th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Notice that they give the mass of the Higgs boson as 144 Gev, well ahead of the LHC.
July 11th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
So Awesome, I want them all! But a bit too pricey for us poor grad students.
July 11th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
[...] via: CosmicVariance [...]
July 11th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
i just wish they actually looked more interesting. Idea: A+ execution: C
July 11th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Umm, judging by the photo they look a bit strung out.
July 11th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
or maybe pea brained ?
July 12th, 2008 at 5:34 am
Tell me about it! My delivery of them turned up last month, but the box was empty.
July 12th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
They obviously tunneled out of the box to another vacuum in the landscape.