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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
+ | {{incomplete|Created by A RELATIVISTIC WALUIGI ANNIHILATING AN UNSUSPECTING LUIGI - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
− | This comic imagines a "theory of supersymmetric Mario Bros." that merges the theoretical physics concept of {{w|supersymmetry}} (explained [[#Background on subatomic particles|below]]) with another "super" thing, {{w|Super Mario Bros.}}, originally developed for the {{w|Nintendo Entertainment System}} and later the ''Super'' Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), two home game consoles popular during Randall's childhood. Mario game characters | + | This comic imagines a "theory of supersymmetric Mario Bros." that merges the theoretical physics concept of {{w|supersymmetry}} (explained in detail [[#Background on subatomic particles|below]]) with another "super" thing, {{w|Super Mario Bros.}}, originally developed for the {{w|Nintendo Entertainment System}} and later the ''Super'' Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), two home game consoles popular during Randall's childhood. The comic humorously combines the two domains by equating certain subatomic particles and Mario game characters. Mario is the titular protagonist of his franchise and Luigi is his brother, and their centrality to the games being similar to the nucleus (proton and neutron) being the center of an atom. |
− | + | In {{w|particle physics}}, a depiction such as a {{w|Feynman diagram}} can be used to try to explain elementary (and composite) particles, and how various interactions occur between them. At the atomic level, this may involve the bulky nucleons (protons and neutrons, these being each a particular triumvirate of quark 'flavors'), electrons (smaller, charged fermions) and various others (such as neutrinos, also fermions, chargeless and often ''nearly'' massless). Sometimes other more exotic/fundamental particles (force-mediating or otherwise transient) are included. The subatomic particles that feature in this comic, and their character equivalents, are: | |
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| ≲1 {{w|Dalton (unit)|m<sub>u</sub>}} | | ≲1 {{w|Dalton (unit)|m<sub>u</sub>}} | ||
| Mario | | Mario | ||
− | | The hero-protagonist of | + | | The hero-protagonist of many of the games |
|- | |- | ||
| {{w|Neutron}} | | {{w|Neutron}} | ||
| n / n⁰ | | n / n⁰ | ||
| Baryon<br/>('udd' quarks) | | Baryon<br/>('udd' quarks) | ||
− | | | + | | 0 |
| ≳1 m<sub>u</sub> | | ≳1 m<sub>u</sub> | ||
| Luigi | | Luigi | ||
− | | | + | | The brother, and secondary protagonist, of many of the games |
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| {{w|Antiproton}}<br/>(not involved in the diagram) | | {{w|Antiproton}}<br/>(not involved in the diagram) | ||
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| as proton* | | as proton* | ||
| Wario | | Wario | ||
− | | | + | | Wario is the "evil" version of Mario |
|- | |- | ||
| {{w|Antineutron}}<br/>(not involved in the diagram) | | {{w|Antineutron}}<br/>(not involved in the diagram) | ||
| <span style="text-decoration: overline">n</span> / n<sup>-0</sup> | | <span style="text-decoration: overline">n</span> / n<sup>-0</sup> | ||
| Antibaryon<br/>('<span style="text-decoration: overline">udd</span>' quarks) | | Antibaryon<br/>('<span style="text-decoration: overline">udd</span>' quarks) | ||
− | | | + | | 0 |
| as neutron* | | as neutron* | ||
| Waluigi | | Waluigi | ||
− | | | + | | Waluigi is the "evil" version of Luigi |
|- | |- | ||
| {{w|Electron}} | | {{w|Electron}} | ||
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| 5.5x10<sup>-4</sup> m<sub>u</sub> | | 5.5x10<sup>-4</sup> m<sub>u</sub> | ||
| (Princess) Peach | | (Princess) Peach | ||
− | | | + | | The "damsel in distress" and/or reward-giver, when not a character in her own right |
|- | |- | ||
| {{w|Positron}} / Antielectron<br/>(not depicted/involved) | | {{w|Positron}} / Antielectron<br/>(not depicted/involved) | ||
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| Assumed >0<br/>(very small*) | | Assumed >0<br/>(very small*) | ||
| (Princess) Daisy | | (Princess) Daisy | ||
− | | | + | | Another "damsel in distress" and/or reward-giver, when not a character in her own right |
|- | |- | ||
| Electron {{w|Neutrino#Antineutrinos|Antineutrino}}<br/>(not depicted, hypothetical) | | Electron {{w|Neutrino#Antineutrinos|Antineutrino}}<br/>(not depicted, hypothetical) | ||
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<nowiki/>* - to within experimental uncertainty | <nowiki/>* - to within experimental uncertainty | ||
− | + | Just as Mario is attracted to Princess Peach in the first generation of Mario games, so is the Mario particle (proton) attracted to the Peach particle (electron). | |
− | The | + | The "Free Luigi Decay" diagram is a {{w|Feynman diagram}} reinterpreting the process of {{w|free neutron decay}}. In Free Neutron Decay, a neutron that is left alone — not part of a nucleus — is unstable and one of its constituent quarks will transform, making a more stable proton, by emitting a W<sup>-</sup> boson (not shown, or renamed), after around 10 to 30 minutes. The boson will then almost immediately decay into a suitable electron and neutrino. In Free Luigi Decay, the Luigi particle decay leads into there being a Mario, a Peach, and a (right-handed) Daisy. This would humorously explain why we don't see any Luigi-only video games. |
The title text is a pun on the title of the Nintendo 64 game ''{{w|The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask}}'' and the concept of {{w|Majorana fermion}}, which attempts to reconcile how, while many particles have separate antiparticle counterparts, certain ones do not. Until this is resolved, scientists may depict a theoretical antiparticle in place of a neutrino in order to preserve various total values across the diagram. But scientists do wonder if a neutrino is its own antiparticle, much as they have also previously wondered if {{w|Neutrino oscillation|they also flip their 'flavor'}} as a way to explain certain experimental results. | The title text is a pun on the title of the Nintendo 64 game ''{{w|The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask}}'' and the concept of {{w|Majorana fermion}}, which attempts to reconcile how, while many particles have separate antiparticle counterparts, certain ones do not. Until this is resolved, scientists may depict a theoretical antiparticle in place of a neutrino in order to preserve various total values across the diagram. But scientists do wonder if a neutrino is its own antiparticle, much as they have also previously wondered if {{w|Neutrino oscillation|they also flip their 'flavor'}} as a way to explain certain experimental results. | ||
− | Baby Park is an oval-shaped race track in the ''{{w|Mario Kart}}'' series and used as a particle collider in the title text, first featured in ''{{w|Mario Kart: Double Dash|Mario Kart: Double Dash!!}}'' on the Nintendo GameCube | + | Baby Park is an oval-shaped race track in the ''{{w|Mario Kart}}'' series and used as a particle collider in the title text, first featured in ''{{w|Mario Kart: Double Dash|Mario Kart: Double Dash!!}}'' on the Nintendo GameCube. |
− | This comic was posted shortly after the release of | + | This comic was posted shortly after the release of <a href="https://www.gameshub.com/news/news/wapeach-princess-peach-waluigi-creator-2634191/"> concept art</a> from Mario Tennis (the game where Wario and Waluigi debuted) of Wapeach, an "evil" counterpart to Peach which was ultimately scrapped. Under the model depicted in the comic, Wapeach would serve as a positron analogue. |
===Background on subatomic particles=== | ===Background on subatomic particles=== | ||
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Added within the {{w|standard model}} are the "{{w|antiparticle}}s" that are oppositely charged (or built up of more fundamental antiparticles), and further issues have required extending this further through theories of supersymmetry which further adds counterparts that have alternate '{{w|Spin (physics)|spin}}'s. | Added within the {{w|standard model}} are the "{{w|antiparticle}}s" that are oppositely charged (or built up of more fundamental antiparticles), and further issues have required extending this further through theories of supersymmetry which further adds counterparts that have alternate '{{w|Spin (physics)|spin}}'s. | ||
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:Mario : Proton | :Mario : Proton | ||
:Luigi : Neutron | :Luigi : Neutron | ||
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:Free Luigi decay: | :Free Luigi decay: | ||
− | :[ | + | :[Illustration of Luigi → Mario + Peach + Daisy] |
:[Label below Daisy:] (Right-handed) | :[Label below Daisy:] (Right-handed) | ||