Use these rules in the order they occur unless instructed otherwise.
If you’re not a particle, you lose immediately.
Imagine four mutually orthogonal straight lines intersecting at your centre and extending as far as you can see in both directions, for reference purposes.
Rotate about one of them at whatever rate results in a tolerable degree of interference from nearby particles.
If an increasing amount of fun does not appear to be approaching, return to step 1.
You win!
Notes:
Some players may, at first, find the manoeuvres described in rules 2 and 3 difficult to execute cleanly. They get easier with practice.
You can try starting by attaching yourself to a much larger particle and using it as a guide, thereby allowing you to ignore, to some extent, the axis about which you are both rotating.
You will find that if you’re not rotating much relative to another particle, you won’t notice it much. You may also find that attempts to rotate in certain ways while attached to a larger particle result in injury if performed without due care and attention.
Even if you continue to have difficulty doing these things for yourself, there is a lot of fun to be had by pretending to be some other particle instead.
It may help if you put labels on your imaginary straight lines so as not to get them mixed up. Labels I like are Time, Size, Mass and Charge.
Enjoy! And do be careful with other players; some of them can become quite unstable if you keep interfering with them.
No, don’t enlighten us. Obviously somebody has way too much time on his/her hands and possibly has an annoying personallity to boot. Maybe this poster should be friends with the one who posted “Anyone Like Statistics?” in GQ a day or so ago.
Yeah, I caught the particle physics bit, but I wasn’t impressed. Now if the game involved something like top quarks coming closer as you spin a particular direction, maybe that would be a cute game, but fun, no. If anyone needs me, I’ll be in the room with Schroedinger’s cat. Maybe. (hee hee)
OK, I’ll be the first to admit, I’m no rocket scientist. Is there a requirement for large amounts of your favorite recreational intoxicant before this game becomes enjoyable?