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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 18 May 1998.
Re: [Request] Science Stuff

Re: [Request] Science Stuff

On Sun, 17 May 1998 23:53:06 -0400, sgt pinback
<rob...@project.darkstar> wrote:

>On Fri, 15 May 1998, Paul Saunders wrote:
>
>> I'm a University Student studying Physics. I would like something
>> physics related (e.g. Black Hole, Atom etc.) to replace the rather
>> cumbersome .sig that I have at the moment. I don't care how big it is
>> but preferably about 35 chars wide.
>> 
>physics stuff? how about feynman diagrams?:
>
>beta decay:                  electron-electorn
>.                               scattering:
>.  \      e- \    / neutrino    \           /
>.   \ p       \  /            e- \         / e-
>.    \   w-    \/                 \ gamma /
>.    /~~~~~~~~~~                  /~~~~~~~\
>.   /                         e- /         \ e-
>.  / n                          /           \
>
>
>loop corrections:
>.                               ,-'''-,               ,-'|'-,
>.      ,-'''-,                 /       \             /   |   \
>._____/_______\______    ~~~~~~\       /~~~~~   ~~~~~\   |   /~~~~~
>.                               '-,,,-'               '-,|,-'
>
>flavour mixing:
>
>.  __u____________s__________u__
>.           |           |
>.    _      |w    _     |w   _
>.  __d______|_____u_____|____d__
>
>if'n you know feynman diagrams you get the idea. if not read 
>'qed' by richard feynman.

ooh, nice

>ideally 'neutrino' would be the greek leter 'eta' and 'gamma' a gamma. 
>anybody got a tricksy way to make fairly small greek letters in ascii?
>i tried these:

Eta? Really? I always thought that neutrinos were represented by the
letter "nu".  Which is much easier to remember and what's used in my
physics text.  Of course it also uses "f" for frequency, which irks
me.

>alphas: <>< or O<
         ^^^
         I've seen that used for a lutefisk.

>beta   B
>       '
How about:     B
               `
>capital  _
>gamma   | '
>
>lower case  V  v
>gammas      O  O

or: Y  or: \/
    `      ()     (which also looks like a fish :)
>        ,
>delta:  O

    )
   ()

nu:  \)

mu:  j-t  <--eew..ugly-<<<
    
Hmm...Greek letters are hard if you want them to be small.


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