Comments on: Melissa Franklin and penguin diagrams

By: My Physics Professor is REALLY Weird

My Physics Professor is REALLY Weird — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:30:23 +0000

[...] courtesy of this link that Eric provided for me, I discovered just how quirky she is. While I had known she had been a [...]

By: dorigo

dorigo — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 13:50:42 +0000

yes, jimbo – the diagram is not accurate. I do not know who made it though. I forgot where I found it…

Cheers,
T.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 03:20:32 +0000

Has nobody noticed ? The diagram is in error !
One of the anti-Tops should be a Top (rev’d arrows !), and s or
s-bar should have the arrow reversed (depend’g on the direction of time). There may be other errors, but I’m too stoned to tell !

By: physics musings » Blog Archive » Geometrically speaking

physics musings » Blog Archive » Geometrically speaking — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 22:58:34 +0000

[...] Before leaving the subject of Feynman diagrams, let me mention two bits of diagrammatic folklore stolen from Peter Woit’s latest book. Naturally enough, recurring diagrams have got pet names over the years. The first one seems to have been the tadpole (for a diagram shaped, well, like a tadpole), coined by Sidney Coleman and resignedly accepted by the Physical Review editors after he proposed lollypop and spermion as alternatives. The second anecdote involves a diagram (depicted above) known as penguin since Melissa Franklin won a dart match over John Ellis: Tommaso Dorigo has recently recounted the story in his blog. [...]

By: little miss demosthenes

little miss demosthenes — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:13:41 +0000

aw, qué bonita.. penguins seem to appear everywhere in geekdom

look, i commented! zΩ! o_O

-lmd

ps: if i have time i’ll go through your archive