# practice poll - subatomic particles **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 19, 2002, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-poll-subatomic-particles/143880 "2002-12-19T20:22:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-poll-subatomic-particles/143880/1 "2002-12-19T20:22:50Z")
What should the official subatomic particle of the SDMB be? Note: this poll uses the approval voting method - you can vote for more than one choice. If you want to vote **against** one choice then you should caste a vote for all the other choices. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-poll-subatomic-particles/143880/2 "2002-12-19T20:46:54Z")
No positron? No neutrino? No Higgs boson? No tachyon? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-poll-subatomic-particles/143880/3 "2002-12-19T20:54:37Z")
Sorry, I was limited to 10. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-poll-subatomic-particles/143880/4 "2002-12-19T20:56:50Z")
I predict the strange quark will win in a landslide. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-poll-subatomic-particles/143880/5 "2002-12-19T21:11:03Z")
Yeah, but that last one’s not even a particle. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-poll-subatomic-particles/143880/6 "2002-12-19T23:53:51Z")
I like the approval voting method. It allows for all kinds of cool analysis. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-poll-subatomic-particles/143880/7 "2002-12-20T00:30:36Z")
Particles leptonic sure are moronic. Avoid dorkiness Vote quarkiness! ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-poll-subatomic-particles/143880/8 "2002-12-20T02:04:33Z")
Nice. I voted “muon”. So **Arnold** , are you testing in anticipation of something? Tripler MUON Candidate for US President, 2004 ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-poll-subatomic-particles/143880/9 "2002-12-20T02:12:21Z")
Tripler - read the ATMB thread about the second smiley election. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-poll-subatomic-particles/143880/10 "2002-12-20T03:17:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried \* > \*\*Tripler - read the ATMB thread about the second smiley election. \*\* Oh, I did, and voted. I forgot to look at the timing of everything. My bad. . . Tripler But I’m still running for President under the MUON Platform. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-poll-subatomic-particles/143880/11 "2002-12-20T06:40:37Z")
i seemed to be able to vote for two particles… ---
**Author:** ![femtosecond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@femtosecond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/femtosecond)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-poll-subatomic-particles/143880/12 "2002-12-20T11:02:28Z")
**Tars** , never heard of the uncertainty principle? 😃 > [@](#): > > _Originally [posted](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=2743552#post2743552) by Arnold Winkelried_ > The smiley will be chosen by popular vote, using the approval method of voting (you can vote for more than one candidate, the candidate with the most votes will win - see [at this page](http://www.idhop.addr.com/av/) a description of approval voting.) Sigh, anybody looked at the result bars? Again, just like in the last practice poll about our favorite color, their colors neither are correlated to the candidates nor add up to something meaningful. I would love to hear a chromodynamicist’s comment about this. ---
**Author:** ![3\_14159265358979323846](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/eada6e/32.png) [@3\_14159265358979323846](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3_14159265358979323846)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-poll-subatomic-particles/143880/13 "2002-12-22T00:58:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Colibri \* > \*\*I predict the strange quark will win in a landslide. \*\* Well, The “top” and “bottom” quarks were originally named “truth” and “beauty.” I think “truth” sums up the purpose of this board quite nicely, so “top” gets my vote. ---
**Author:** ![3\_14159265358979323846](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/eada6e/32.png) [@3\_14159265358979323846](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3_14159265358979323846)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-poll-subatomic-particles/143880/14 "2002-12-22T01:00:02Z")
Please excuse the random, inappropriate capitalization in my previous post… ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-poll-subatomic-particles/143880/15 "2002-12-23T15:36:18Z")
So does this mean the SDMB is charmingly strange, or strangely charming? (Not to mention nerdy) ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-poll-subatomic-particles/143880/16 "2002-12-23T16:43:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tars Tarkas \* > \*\*i seemed to be able to vote for two particles… \*\* Read the instructions first.