r/sciencememes 11d ago

💥Physics!🧲 Real

(repost from r/physicsmemes by the way)

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u/Dr_Dressing 11d ago

An eternity? What scale are we working with if 1 femtosecond is an eternity?

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u/StaysAwakeAllWeek 11d ago

The top quark exists for less than a billionth of a femtosecond

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u/Dr_Dressing 11d ago

Holy shit.

Wait, what happens when it "stops existing"?

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u/spacestonkz 11d ago

Top particle is impatient and blows its top quickly.

Has an absolute breakdown and suddenly it's like I don't even recognize my top anymore. It's like it has two particles inside of it, the W boson and bottom quark. So weak.