If Subatomic Particles Could Talk

I've wanted to make this one for a long time.

Sorry to fans of electron neutrinos and W and Z bosons. And I know muons also couple with photons, like electrons, (as implied by muon having a "new electric field") and blah blah blah this video was already too long anyway, please don't think too hard about the implications of some of these jokes or it will stop making sense. (But if you are a physicist, please do feel free to tell me what I got wrong, as I am not one!)

#physics #comedy

[oliviastefanoiou]

"Stay away from me" is the most hilarious thing an electron could say to a positron. You really annihilated that joke.

[TheZetaKai]

Photon always knows how to get Electron to come out of its shell.

[christoferguson]

This is the funniest video I've ever pretended to understand.

[KeKe-bvqv]

'Giving mass' nearly ended me XD

[jacobshore]

The fact that the Higgs Boson is praying isn’t lost on me, because it’s also the God Particle!

[UnicornsAndUnions]

They're top, bottom, and in denial. Next time on: the particle zoo.

[NataliaPunko]

This is peak comedy! And the colorchanging wig on the gluon was cherry on top. So much attention to detail

[sydneygorelick]

That "stimulated emission" joke at the end is absolutely filthy and you should be extremely proud of yourself

[KevinGriffin-bs]

Watching PBS spacetime finally paid off.

[lawrencecalablaster]

According to recent theories, there were actually thousands of other quarks showing up & leaving the party constantly, but they were so fast that only the neutrinos noticed them, & they just didn’t care.

[EpicVideos]

This takes the cake for nerdiest video on the internet.

[pedroscoponi]

The chromodynamics joke was made for like 5 people and it pains me to say I'm not one of them

[ELIAHAVAH]

“It's degenerate! The Pauli (poly) exclusion principle exists for a reason!” for an opening joke absolutely *sent* me, and set the tone for the whole video. 10/10.

[Mightyjordy]

I’ve never seen a comedy video that went so completely over my head but I appreciate its existence.

[doutorchapatin]

I'm very proud of the ammount of jokes i actually managed to get.

[oliviastefanoiou]

Thank you! My nuclear phycisists and astrophysics colleagues are gonna love this. The standard model has great sitcom potential. Just talking about the loyalty issues of valence band electrons of metals could be an entire episode.

[michaelmcinerney]

The God particle “giving mass” was a truly divine pun. Excellent work.

[MisterBoggins]

"Subatomic particles do not just sit around being subatomic particles. They are beehives of activity."

Gary Zukav

[rogueyollo]

"Oh, Strange. His only hope of enlightenment lies in decay"

[KeKe-bvqv]

Had to go look up why Gluon's wig changed colour.
Apparently gluons carry the colour charge of the strong interaction (between quarks, acting as the exchange particle), participating in the strong interaction at the same time as mediating it.
The colour charge determines how quarks and gluons interact through the strong force.
There are three; red, green and blue as well as anti colours called anti-red, anti-green, and anti-blue.
You get a colour neutral system when red, green, and blue (or anti-red, anti-green, and anti-blue) or any color and its anti-color combine.
They're not actual colours of course, it's just a convenient analogy to the primary colours.
I still don't have a deep enough understanding of why the wig kept changing colour to really get it but the colour charge changing might just be what happens when tearing apart a hadron.
I love being inspired to look stuff up when I don't get it.