Electrons

That's nothing, quarks have a fucking flavor

Black licorice quarks are the worse
- Better than that artificial "puke" flavor!
Not like from those ancient and malfunctioning replicators. Now where the hell is Rom...?
Of course. The word is borrowed from a German dairy product.
Oh yeah?!! Well so do neutrinos! Electron, Muon, Tau!
And it has nothing to do with quarks and chromodynamics! Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange and Charmed!

Here's a grand idea: make everything as confusing as possible, with repeating or similar terminology for different things! Superstrings and Cosmic Strings!
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More vanillin quarks!

Come on this is not complicated. To imagine electron spin, think of a ball that is rotating. The election is the ball, except it's not really a ball, and it's not rotating either.

I just figured that it's based off perspective. If you look at a spinning ball horizontally vs vertically.

Either that or is just spinning both ways at once, kinda like Earth and it's atmosphere can go two different directions despite being the same planet.
- I think it's more that they used an existing word for a concept that has nothing to do with its original meaning, or only in an extremely abstracted sense. This is certainly true of quark flavours and colour.
Trump better be doing the ballet.

Honestly physics is super simple when you realize nothing makes sense.

And I'm being completely serious. Once you actually truly realize, that the universe is just a total fuckin mess that basically runs on the strongest luck engine there is, it all starts to make perfect sense.

Once you understand the chaos, the order begins to form.

Physics is just us categorizing the relationships between different observed phenomena. "Explanations" are fun, and many can be true at certain scales, but getting deeper into any specific phenomenon is just a rabbit hole that leads to more and more "we don't know why it does that, it just does and it works in our models."
- Exactly my point!
  
  You can't get caught up in the why, because at our current understanding, there is no why.
  
  There only is.
being a fantasy novel nerd i like to think of physics as simply being our magic system.
- Do you have some fantasy novel recommendations? I'd also like to read some but don't know what I should read.
The truest knowledge is one's doubt, thus I am, but am I?
- See I don't see it that existentially.
  
  To me it's more: I am therefore I am. What I am remains to be seen, but still, I am.

Up and down in what direction, electron?!?

Up and down on what direction?!?

Relative to A'Tuin
- My favourite quark is the hubwise quark, closely followed by the widdershins quark
Actually a good point, tho. And also a good thought: If there is no special direction, what would be up? And that's where quantum mechanics gets even weirder: It's either up or down in the direction you measure.
- It's either up or down whatever the direction.
  
  If you measure 100%up-0%down then you rotate your frame of reference by 90°, you automatically get 50%up-50%down... (iirc)
  
  It's weirdly teasing us like that!
- At least in the Stern-Gerlach experiment it's relative to the magnetic field.
Yes and no
Spin.
- Spin! Spin! Spin! Spin! Spin! Spin! Spin! Spin!

There might only be one, ever.

Mom says it's my turn with the single universal electron!
- Look. Time Traveling Ellie’s going to make sure everybody gets their fair share of charge. As long as we make sure she doesn’t get in her own way it’s all good.
- I asked for an electron for Christmas and Grandma got me an electron NEUTRINO 🙄🙄🙄
This is actually the first time I'm hearing about single electron theory, but I feel validated now that I'm learning about it. I have for a long time believed that the universe is made of a single photon, since photons exist outside of time. Then, if electrons are made of a "pair" of entangled photons, since every photon is the same photon, it would follow that every electron is also the same electron. And one could assert that quarks are just entangled electrons and positrons in various ratios and combinations. Which in my mind leads to the conclusion that all of time and space and matter doesn't actually exist and we are just imaginary mathematical figments.
- Welcome to quantum field theory! There is a single field for every type of particle in the standard model, but electrons are not made of photons.
- ...Here's Tom with the weather?
- For the people downvoting, may I hear a counterpoint as to why this wouldn't make sense?