Leptons and leprechauns

Tribology & Lubrication Technology | March 1, 2009| | Copyright

St. Patrick's Day sets the stage for a few lessons in basic physics.

For many years now, on the night before St. Patrick's Day, my kids build traps to catch leprechauns. Somehow they always manage to catch one each. Well, not actual leprechauns but statues of leprechauns. It's become a tradition in our house that every March we bring them out of storage and place them on the mantel. Last year we completed the set- 24 in all.

Why 24? Well, that's because of the name I gave the first one they caught. I named him Electron because leprechauns are believed to have negative personalities, and it ...

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