Jun 30 2008Awh, How Cute: Subatomic Particle Plushies
So how can we dispel the fear that the world is going to be sucked into a black hole by the CERN Large Hadron Collider and leave us all to eat in the dark? Ooh, I know -- subatomic particle plushies! That's right folks, the Particle Zoo is now selling all your favorite particles. They're $9 apiece and can be purchased separately or in sets (that's not even all of them in the picture there). Each is packed with a material appropriate for their mass (lighter ones filled with foam, heavier ones with gravel). Whee! I love soft things. But be warned: the last time I thought I was bringing a charm quark home she turned out to be strange. I did get to see her photons though.
Hit the jump for more pictures and a link to the store.
Thanks Russ, I want them all too.
Reader Comments
1. Sean - June 30, 2008 1:02 PM
FIRST
2. CD - June 30, 2008 1:29 PM
That's quite nerdy...
3. Guillaume Theoret - June 30, 2008 1:49 PM
Sweet, I want them all!!
4. Dark Rowan - June 30, 2008 1:56 PM
WANT!!!
5. SmokingGirl - June 30, 2008 2:00 PM
I want strange quark, gluon, and top quark. Sweeeeet...
6. AJ - June 30, 2008 2:51 PM
Do want!
7. Momboelitist - June 30, 2008 3:29 PM
Wow! They are all so accurately depicted too.....
8. Clinch - June 30, 2008 4:10 PM
Quarks? Wasn't that a bar on DeepSpace9 (Star Trek).
And sub-atomic particles are boring, I want theoretical particle plushies, how awesome would a Higgs boson particle plushie be?
9. ahoy - June 30, 2008 4:18 PM
@ 8, they have tehoretical particles, including higgs boson:
http://www.particlezoo.net/individual_pages/shop_higgsboson.html
10. Joey - July 1, 2008 12:51 AM
Somehow I don't see these becomming the next Beenie Babies. Cute idea, though.
11. MBS - July 1, 2008 4:14 AM
I want all of them so bad!
12. David Lee - July 1, 2008 6:58 AM
i don't think i have laughed so hard in my life! it just goes to show you can make anything!! I guarantee my kids getting a couple!
13. Clinch - July 1, 2008 9:43 AM
I wonder if they have a set of these for extreme religious fundamentalist,, but instead of these lot, you just get earth, fire, air and water.
And @9
The Higgs boson proved to be a lot less awesome than I hoped :(
And seeing as the neutrinos have bandit masks because they are so elusive, shouldn't the Higgs boson be dressed like a Ninja or something?
14. Momboelitist - July 1, 2008 10:41 AM
Hey Frank!? Instead of the kids throwing all the scraps away I've got an idea. Those idiots in America will buy anything! LOL!
15. Grievousfish - July 1, 2008 12:21 PM
If you order both the photon and the anti-photon do they just send you an empty box?
16. Hobbes - July 1, 2008 2:30 PM
I thought they hadn't proven the boson existed yet. They're starting up that experiment in Europe soon though (the one crazy radicals think will end the world by creating a black hole... I think that starts in August).