c0nc0rdance: Ha! That's a PERFECT Shmoo! — Subium • Bluesky web client

Let's talk about the Shmoo, and how it's become part of multiple fields of science & medicine as well as being a global cultural phenomenon. It was a creature invented in 1948 by cartoonist Al Capp for his Li'l Abner comic strip. They lived in the "Valley of the Shmoon".

In physics, the Shmoo turned up in a surprising context. I wrote about “Shmoos of the Tevatron” for SYMMETRY magazine in 2012. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/june...

Shmoos of the Tevatronwww.symmetrymagazine.org Particles like the top quark weren’t the only characters to appear at Fermilab’s Tevatron. A physicist waxes nostalgic as scientists prepare to celebrate the accelerator’s contributions to science, te...

Ha! That's a PERFECT Shmoo!

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