Mental illness Memes

The Standard Model just got a psychological evaluation. Someone brilliantly relabeled the force carriers as "mental illnesses" and gave all the quarks little duck faces. Because nothing says "fundamental building blocks of reality" like waterfowl with identity crises. Physicists spend decades developing elegant mathematical frameworks only for someone to come along and suggest particles are just having a really bad day. The "mewon" and "mewtrinoʺ are particularly inspired—apparently the universe runs on cat puns. Next week in quantum physics: are gluons just bosons with attachment issues?