#40 Event Horizon

This semester I'm studying cosmology and it's the time to learn about cosmologic horizons. Event horizon is probably the saddest concept I've ever heard! Just listen: Two particles separated farther than the distance of the event horizon will never EVER meet each other in the history of the universe due to its accelerating expansion. Isn't it devastating? But hey, don't get down, every single partcile was in contact with others at the start, so they will never forget about each other. Thats the reason for thermodynamic equilibrium in the universe! :)

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#39 Exercise

Who needs to go to the gym when you have special relativity?
I was supposed to be studying, but... too tired.... blergh. 

#38 Quarkonia

Quarkonium, in plural Quarkonia are flavorless mesons composed by a quark and its own antiquark, like charmonium and bottonium. Learn more here.
So, we were in our Nuclear Physics class when we read the term 'quarkonia' in our text book. My mate Sara suggested that it sounded like the name of some fantasy world and thats how The Chronicles of Quarkonia came up!

#37 Compliment

Bc+ particles are B mesons made of a c (charmed) quark and a b (bottom or beauty) antiquark, so it is a meson that has a quantum number for 'charm' and for 'beauty'. Aren't they appropiate? The nicest kind of particle! I'll totally date them. For more information check Wikipedia.
This one is for a very special philosopher ;)

#36 Flavour

Because no, angular momentum, spin or principal quantum numbers are not enough to describe particles. Physicist need MOAR and to describe quarks it is necessary to define a NEW ONE, and, sure, why not say... flavour quantum number? Because, of course, quarks are tasty and you can differenciate them by the way they sweeten your coffee. Other day, we can talk about colours... because they're also colored you know. Read more.

#35 Wormhole

I'm so sorry for the total lack of new comics this last two months, but I've been in my examn period and I've been too busy studying to even think of new ideas for Dinger. Joyfully, I did today my last exam and I'M FREE AGAIN, so I can start to upload new adventures much more often. The next one indeed is coming soon probably between tonight and tomorrow. Again so sorry to all the people that has been waiting for so long. But good news, the cat is back!

#34 Brains

A couple weeks ago I watched a movie recorded in CERN installations by Phd students in where higgs radiation turned people into a superposition of dead and alive. YES, ZOMBIES. The movie is pretty well made and it satisfaces all of my geekness. You can watch the full movie here.
So here we have a very angry zombie Schrödinger's cat that wants brainsssss. Specially Erwin Schrödinger's one.