Particle Physics as a Mystery Novel

This is a pretty cool take on particle physics as a "mystery" novel... quite amusing and informative! Maybe that's what we need to do with all of physics

But this was not a textbook case. MINERvA had in her custody not one, but two protons! Only after she drained the last drop of espresso would MINERvA allow her weary legs to drag her back to the interrogation room. The questioning was fast and direct.

 

“Listen Proton, we know you and the muon came out of a carbon nucleus. Was it quasi-elastic scattering?”

 

“Sure, but it wasn’t me. It was the other proton.”

 

“The other proton told us the same thing. Then what were you doing fleeing the nucleus?”

 

“I already told you: I watched the neutrino come in and scatter off a neutron. Guy turns into a proton and runs right into me!”

 

“That’s what they all say. We think both of you protons were directly involved in the scattering.”

 

“Oh, yeah? How are you going to prove it? You don’t have jurisdiction inside the nucleus!

 

Source: http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2011/07/11/a-particle-physics-private-eye-takes-on-the-great-interaction-caper/

Enjoy

~mooey