So you're wondering around the universe one day and realize, "hey, I'm pretty darn small."
Haha, yeah the universe is really really big, we're all "small" by comparison.
That's not a helpful answer, you're litterally small, maybe even smaller than an atom.
"Hey, maybe I'm a particle."
What you need is a particle physicist.
Let me hook you up with one of the best, physicists Dr. Sheldon Glashow, he's got a nobel prize, right? He'll know what's up.
[[Go see Dr. Glashow]]
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"Hey there Dr. Glashow!" you warmly greet the good doctor. "I small, , like litterally tiny, short range forces hold me down, maybe I live in an atom."
"Well lil' buddy, that's something I can help with!" the doctor replies confidently.
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"Let's see..." Dr. Glashow says while pulling out his trusty Standard Model of particle physics chart. "Here we are - so, how many smaller particles are you made up of?"
[[just a few.]]
[[many.]]
[[only one.]]
"I don't even know!" you cry.
"Let's pick one of those choices randomly and see where it takes us."
[[random]]
Dr. Glashow gives you a skeptical side-eye. "I see, hmmm... so are do your particles strongly interacting?"
You quickly hit wikipedia and find out strongly interacting particles are hypothetical particles that interact with ordinary matter, but are also hypothesized to form dark matter.
So you take a quick personal inventory and answer...
[[Yes, I interact strongly with matter]]
[[No, I don't interact at all with matter]]
"My friend, my friend, good news if you are made up of many particles you are definiely an atom or a molecule, or something even larger!
<img src="http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/files/2013/07/human-cell.jpg">
You are certainly not an elementary particle, your problems are likely larger than my expertise. Might I recommend a good chemist or biologist to help identify your identity.
But, if you'd like we can pretend you're made up of fewer particles and we can see where that takes us."
[[Yes, let's go back, just for fun.]]
[[That's all I needed to know, thank you, good-bye"]]
"Haha." Dr. Galshow cackles. "You're an elementary particle."
"Wonderful!" You rejoice! He seems to have really have narrowed it down with just one question.
"Now, now, there are only about 30 of those, we just have to narrow it down with a few more question, and we'll have you identified." Dr. Glashow sounds as if he's bloodhound on the scent.
you sigh, not as close as you though, huh?
"Ok, do you take up space, or do your friend pile right on top of you??" Dr. G asks urgently.
[[They pile on]]
[[I take up space]]
"You're a bozon!"
"That's a force carrying particle."
<img src="http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/higgs-boson-samuel-sheats.jpg" height="300" width="300">
"We can narrow it down more, is your field nonzero in empty space?"
[[Yes!! Ahhh!!]]
[[no, way if space is empty I've got no energy.]]
"Ah Ha!" Dr. Glashow says as if he's made progress in the diagnosis.
You are a hadron! You are a composite particle made of quarks held together by the strong force.
Now, those particle you are made up of are quarks, how many quarks are we talking?"
After some introspection you decide...
[[I'm made of zero quarks]]
[[One quark, but I've also got an anti-quark]]
[[More than three, is that bad?]]
[[Exactly three]]
<img src="http://blogs.uslhc.us/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Zres1.png" >
"Unfortunately my friend I'm guessing you are positronium. You are likely an unstable system consisting of an electron and its anti-particle, a positron, bound together into an exotic atom. Good luck."
"Zero? are you sure?" Dr. G asks skeptically.
"Yes, I think I'd know if I had a quark." you reply
"Well in that case you are a glueball. And to the best of my knowledge you are hypothetical right now. But, Your existence could really help the Standard Model of physics.
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alt="glueball">
"Although you don't have mass, your energy is thought to be involved in binding everything together inside a proton, and a lot of that energy takes the form of mass thanks to E=mc2. Without gluons, protons wouldn't exist, much less be as massive as they are.
My friend please go straight to the nearest physics lab and get yourself verified. You may even share a the next Nobel if your story checks out."
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[[What kind of particle are you?]]
<img src="https://cds.cern.ch/record/1473657/files/ParticleQuestSprites_image.jpeg" width="586" height="382" alt="PF">
"Ok, let's say you have
(either:"[[just a few.]]","[[many.]]","[[only one.]]")
and see where it takes us."
"Super! "Let go back again and pick one of those choices randomly, see where it takes us."
[[random]]
"Bye, have a nice day!"
<img src="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTMF29oh0yvuAAK_9acFZo7d68ZOjH19xc8RPQybpJUzpyoV5TP"
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"You're a Higgs Boson!!"
here a funny xkcd about you:
<img src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/higgs_boson.png">
[[Start over|Start]]
"You are a gauge boson!"
"That's a force carrying particle"
"What force do you carry?"
[[weak]]
[[strong]]
[[electo-magnetic]]
[[gravity]]
"Whats your charge?"
[[+1 or -1]]
[[0]]
"You are a Gluon!"
"The gluon is be considered to be the fundamental exchange particle underlying the strong interaction between protons and neutrons in a nucleus."
<img src="http://www.antonine-education.co.uk/Image_library/Physics_1/Particles/gluon.JPG">
[[Start Over|Start]]
"You are a photon!"
"Humans love you, from light and radio to gamma rays."
<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/EM_Spectrum_Properties_edit.svg/2000px-EM_Spectrum_Properties_edit.svg.png">
[[Start Over|Start]]
"You are a graviton! you mediate the force of gravity."
"Way to keep us all down to earth!"
<img src="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQPg2HhFIaZxDxxOuMSzkE1hDs2PHxcD3IQuE2wheP9fEFzI38Yuw">
[Start over|Start]]
"You are a W boson!"
"You are a Z boson."
"The Z boson mediates the transfer of momentum, spin, and energy when neutrinos scatter elastically from matter, "
<img src="http://atlas.physicsmasterclasses.org/zpath_files/img/highslide/feynman/Z_ElectronPositron.png">