Where am I?

[Beyond]

ha-ha-ha-ha, still laughing from your 'force-feeding' clue. Can't think of anything. Maybe later.

[Ann]

Ooh--kay...

Force-feeding the world took so much out of me that I burst. I am no more. I'm dead and gone. I've been gone for a long, long, long time.

But some of me still exists, in the tummy of the world.

And then I'm the mother of the smaller light too, of course.

Ann

[neufer]

<<Pindar praises Theia in his Fifth Isthmian ode: Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through the value you bestow on them, o queen, ships contending on the sea and yoked teams of horses in swift-whirling contests become marvels.

Theia: the hypothesized protoplanet is derived from the mythical Greek titan Theia, who gave birth to the Moon goddess, Selene. This designation was proposed initially by the English geochemist Alex N. Halliday in 2000 and has become accepted in the scientific community. According to modern theories of planet formation, Theia was part of a population of Mars-sized bodies that existed in the Solar System 4.5 billion years ago. Indeed, one of the attractive features of the giant impact hypothesis is that the formation of the Moon fits into the context of the formation of the Earth: during the course of its formation, the Earth is thought to have experienced dozens of collisions with such planet-sized bodies. The Moon-forming collision would have been only one such "giant impact" and, perhaps, the last.>>

[stephen63]

Tough one, Ann!

[Ann]

You got it, Art! Congratulations!

Ann

[Ann]

Okay, one more!

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

I should add that the answer to my riddle is not a scarlet pimpernel!

Ann

[Beyond]

Well... after listening for about 3-minutes longer than i wanted to, i have a vague notion of Mars because of all the seeking, that just as easily could be the two voyagers(here and there). But it could all be just left over slumbering that hasn't dissipated as yet.

[Ann]

Next clue!

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

Well! The poor Professor has some trouble spelling or really remembering his name, doesn't he?

But he got it moderately so-so right!

Ann

[Beyond]

Nah It couldn't be the Higgs Boson, could it

[Ann]

Yup! It could be!

And Professor Higgs, of course!!

Congrats, Beyond!

Ann

[neufer]

[url=http://www.simonmccann.com/higgs-bozo-finally-discovered/][size=150]Higgs Bozon finally discovered![/size][/url]

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<<The name most strongly associated with the particle and field is the Higgs boson and Higgs field. For some time the particle was known by a combination of its PRL author names, for example the Brout–Englert–Higgs particle, or the Englert–Brout–Higgs–Guralnik–Hagen–Kibble mechanism, and these are still used at times. Fueled in part by the issue of recognition and a potential shared Nobel Prize, the most appropriate name is still occasionally a topic of debate as at 2012. (Higgs himself prefers to call the particle either by an acronym of all those involved, or "the scalar boson", or "the so-called Higgs particle".)

Of the PRL papers' authors, only the paper by Higgs explicitly offered as a prediction, that a massive particle would exist, and calculated some of its properties; he was therefore "the first to postulate the existence of a massive particle" according to Nature.

Author Frank Close notes that Higgs alone had drawn attention to a predicted massive scalar boson, while all others had focused on the massive vector bosons. However in Higgs' view, Brout and Englert did not explicitly mention the boson since its existence is plainly obvious in their work, while according to Guralnik the GHK paper was a complete analysis of the entire symmetry breaking mechanism whose mathematical rigour is absent from the other two papers, and a massive particle may exist in some solutions.

The name was popularised in the 1970s due to its use as a convenient shorthand or because of a mistake in citing. Many accounts credit the "Higgs" name to physicist Benjamin Lee. Lee was a significant populist for the theory in its early stages, and habitually attached the name "Higgs" as a "convenient shorthand" for its components from 1972 and in at least one instance from as early as 1966. Although Lee clarified in his footnotes that "'Higgs' is an abbreviation for Higgs, Kibble, Guralnik, Hagen, Brout, Englert", his use of the term (and perhaps also Steven Weinberg's mistaken cite of Higgs' paper as the first in his seminal 1967 paper) meant that by around 1975–76 others had also begun to use the name 'Higgs' exclusively as a shorthand.>>

[Beyond]

Gee, i named that 'tune' in two clues. I wonder how many thought of it in the first clue, but didn't say anything

[Ann]

Thanks, Art. Peter Higgs has just been visiting Sweden, and I saw him this morning on the morning TV news. That's why I was inspired to make him and "his" boson my new riddle.

Of course, Higgs is so modest that he prefers names like "Brout–Englert–Higgs particle, or the Englert–Brout–Higgs–Guralnik–Hagen–Kibble mechanism".

But seriously, Professor, surely you must understand that some names are just too good to resist? Don't you agree, uh,

Ann

[neufer]

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

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Gee, i named that 'tune' in two clues.

I wonder how many thought of it in the first clue,
but didn't say anything

[Ann]

One more riddle... but I'm going to bed now, and won't be able to react to your guesses (if any) for several hours now!

Ann

[Beyond]

Ann, you have some of the darnedest clues It reminds me of something, but i don't know what.
Hah! This song for one. Maybe I'll remember the other later. Or, maybe not.

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

[Moonlady]

Oh, thats Ann, on her mission to paint everything in blue what gets in her way!

There, riddle solved!

No?!

It's a blue star? Blue nebula?
Clashes of two objects/ particles?
Two astrophysicists playing prank war?

Need more clues!

[Beyond]

Also, notice the shapes I think she's trying to 'egg us on'.

[geckzilla]

The inner battle your brain never has when deciding whether or not to make another post about blue?

[Ann]

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Source:http://background-pictures.feedio.net/
hipster-disney-princess-tumblr/wdict.net*img*huey,+dewey,+and+louie.jpg/

Okay, here's my next clue! Note that the answer to my riddle is not Huey, Dewey and Louie, Disney, hipster, duck, ducklings, bird, or egg(s)!

Ann

[Ann]

Boy, are we small! Smaller than a bug's eyelash! Smaller than a flea's dinner! Hi, big brothers? We don't think so.

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

Ann

[Moonlady]

The Planck Units?

Or the subatomic particles?

[Ann]

The Planck Units?

Or the subatomic particles?

Yes, we are talking about subatomic particles. Actually... we are talking about certain properties of certain subatomic particles.

Ann

[Ann]

A slightly whimsical clue here, although it probably won't help you much...

Ann

[Ann]

Okay! Let's do this in two stages. The "hush puppy" clue just might help you figure out what kind of particles I'm looking for.

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Photo: Poetry Foundation

This clue, however, makes the identification of the subatomic particles too easy for Art, Neufer, though!

Ann